ThrillRide! Special Features

Outside the exhibit, there's a cave-like tunnel that leads to another section of the park and in that tunnel are some more goodies, like this Blazing Fury car...

...and this left-over coach from the mine train that was removed to make way for Tennessee Tornado. I love mine trains, and I'm sorry I missed Thunder Express, but they traded up, big time.

The mine train may be long gone, but Dollywood's real train continues to ply the rails with nostalgic grandeur.

Engine 70, black with gold and red accents, breathing fire, she's a beauty.

There is nothing quite like the commanding presence of a steam locomotive at speed.

Truly awesome.

"The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam to a carriage on wheels will make a great change in the situation of man." Thomas Jefferson, 1802