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Whistlestop Train (formerly Thomas the Tank Engine) was a Miniature Railway built by German manufacturer Metallbau Emmeln formerly located at Six Flags Over Georgia in Valencia, California, USA.
History
In 2007, Six Flags signed a license agreement with HIT Entertainment to open up themed areas based on Thomas & Friends titled "Thomas Town". Six Flags Over Georgia was the third Six Flags park to gain the area, after Discovery Kingdom and New England. It was built on the former site of Déjà Vu, which was removed after the 2007 season.
The themed train ride opened with Thomas Town on May 17, 2008, for the park's summer season.[1]
In October 2010, after exiting bankruptcy, Six Flags announced that they would remove all licensed theming from their parks except for their Warner Bros. license. In 2011, Thomas Town was rebranded as "Whistlestop Park", with the attraction gaining its current name at the start of the 2011 season. The engine was debranded as a generic locomotive.
Before the park's 2012 season started, the park announced the attraction's removal in February, although the rest of the area would remain. The train that used to belong to the attraction is currently located outside the Rabun Gap Railroad Station for the Six Flags Railroad. Whistlestop Park itself remained until the end of the 2015 season, when it was closed off to the public and its only remaining attraction - a children's playground, was relocated to the Bugs Bunny Boomtown area.
References
- ↑ "Thomas Town rolls into Six Flags Over Georgia". Atlanta Business Chronicle. Retrieved 2024-01-26.
