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TRAIN-LIFT -
TRAIN STATION
In the unlikely event you haven't heard, Six Flags over
Texas opens August Fifth. There was a kind of
voyage today for the Six Flags narrow guage steam
engine, an old puffer-belly that's been cleaned out and
spruced up for the first day of businessI
.. Before the all-aboard .is given, one final
bit of ceremony. A carefully-wrapped silver spike,
2 absolutely free of fingerprints, is put in'"place, to
be hammered home by Angus Wynne-junior of Dallas, a big
man around the Great Southwest Corporation, and not abad gandy-dancer either.
With that over, the passeng-
ers -- predominantly female -- load up.
FRONT ENGINE
The 1890 type steam engine chugs out of the depot, *
which is situated in the Republic of Texas section ofthe big amusement park.
The engine first was bought in
18-96 by a Louisiana plantation owner, Hippolite Patou,
to haul sugar cane from his 8-thousand acre spread near
New Iberia. She's been completely done over by special-1
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Train-lift], script, July 27, 1961; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc936121/m1/1/?q=%221961-07%22&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.