Narrow Gauge Railway

The plaque describes narrow gauge railroads in general, and the Six Flags trains have a story of their own. Wikipedia's account says both locomotives were built around the turn of the century for the Enterprise sugar cane plantation in Louisiana, then rebuilt by the park at $50,000 each, renamed General Sam Houston and Mirabeau B. Lamar, and refitted to burn oil instead of coal and wood. It opened with the park in 1961 and is the only attraction still running from that first season. The railroad's name is credited to retired Texas and Pacific engineers hired in 1961.

What the plaque says

Narrow Gauge Railway Economical to build, operate and maintain, many narrow gauge railroads were running in Texas between 1853 and 1900. Some were "Taps" (for towns off the main line); some logging roads, going deep into woods and swamps. Hauled passengers, thousands of cattle, tons of sugar cane or other crops, and were used for general traffic. One line--Great Sweetgum, Yubadam & Hoo Hoo--operated at first as the T.M. & C. (Two Mules and a Car). The two engines at Six Flags over Texas were built in 1887 and 1903; and rebuilt according to original specifications. (1966)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cedar Ridge Preserve — 11 mi
  A 633-acre Audubon Dallas preserve at the western edge of Dallas County, with about nine miles of trails through prairie, woodland and escarpment hills.
• The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza — 15 mi
  A plow-company warehouse of 1903, identified by the Warren Commission as the building Oswald fired from, now a museum on its sixth and seventh floors above Dealey Plaza.
• Tarrant County Courthouse — 15 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• Dallas Museum of Art — 16 mi
  A city art museum that began as the Dallas Art Association in 1903, grew up in Fair Park, and has stood in the Arts District since 1984 under a forty-foot barrel vault.

More markers nearby

• Cable Tool Rig — steps away
• Ford Cemetery — 1.9 mi
• First United Methodist Church of Arlington — 2.5 mi
• P.A. Watson Log House — 2.6 mi