{"id":244,"date":"2020-01-01T04:31:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T04:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/?page_id=244"},"modified":"2020-01-22T03:57:54","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T03:57:54","slug":"minimine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/welcome\/sections\/boomtown\/minimine\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini-Mine Train"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-light-gray-background-color has-background\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<strong> Year Installed: <\/strong>\n\n\n1969\n\n\n\n<br><strong> Last Year Operated: <\/strong>\n\n\nCurrently Operating\n\n\n\n<br><strong> Section: <\/strong>\n\n\nBoomtown USA\n\n\n\n<br><strong> Manufacturer: <\/strong>\n\n\nArrow Development\n\n\n\n<br><strong> Other Names and Nicknames: <\/strong>\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The <strong><em>Mini-Mine Train<\/em><\/strong> was built in 1969, making it tied with the Tower for the 9th oldest operating ride in the park. &nbsp;(Both have been out of operation for a season for remodeling.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The ride&nbsp;was built by Arrow Development, the same company that built the Runaway Mine Train. Located next to the original &#8220;Runaway Mine Train&#8221;, the Mini-Mine train was specifically designed to be a roller coaster for the younger crowd.&nbsp; The lift hill is twenty (20) feet high.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/parktimes.com\/sections\/boomtown\/minetrain\/btnewmmt.jpg\" alt=\"Mini Mine Train\"\/><figcaption> Shot of the new &#8220;Mini-Mine Train.&#8221; <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The train goes around a basically circular track and back to the que house.&nbsp; On slow days, to make the ride a little longer, the trains are run twice for each ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The track was rebuilt in 1997 to accommodate the New Mr. Freeze ride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(c) Davis McCown, 1999 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Mini-Mine Train was built in 1969, making it tied with the Tower for the 9th oldest operating ride in the park. &nbsp;(Both have been out of operation for a season for remodeling.) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The ride&nbsp;was built by Arrow Development, the same company that built the Runaway Mine Train. Located next to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/welcome\/sections\/boomtown\/minimine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mini-Mine Train&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,24],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1111,"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/244\/revisions\/1111"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parktimes.com\/ptsarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}