That's Not Supposed to Happen- Silver Dollar City Train -Ep26 Confessions of a Theme Park Worker
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- Опубліковано 22 вер 2016
- Things don't always go the way they should on the steam train. Unexpected events may change how the robbery is done, or a major blunder may happen as well. Here's a look at a couple common events and my personal biggest "fail moment" on the Frisco Silver Dollar Line steam train at Silver Dollar City.
A behind the scenes look at what a former worker at Disney World, Silver Dollar City, and Busch Gardens Florida experienced in his time working at the parks. From driving large safari trucks around live wild animals while cracking one silly joke after another, to spending 5 years as a photopass photographer at Walt Disney World and seeing and experiencing all sorts of things, to being a conductor and train robber on the famous Frisco Silver Dollar Line at Silver Dollar City. With 10 years of working in the parks, there's lost of stories to tell. Here is some of them...
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Can't stop laughing at the conductor saying "NEVER MIND" right as the show started and the bell ringing xD
*DING, DING*
Or the one time when I was scratching my head and my conductor hat fell off by Powder Keg on the way out to the robbery in the dark of night. Needless to say, when I went up and around the bend to find Yankees, I REALLY went up and around the bend. "Im surprised the robbers didn't make a big deal about me being so winded from running up the tiny little hill.
Was it you that dropped a hat one time that the robbers fetched for you between shows? The conductor came out the next time around to find "conductor Alphie" telling him how to run his train. LOL
No, I RAN all the way up to Powder Keg to get my hat while the train was being robbed.
i know. :) there was another time someone dropped their hat off the train and the robbers fetched it later. i dont remember who it was though.
Colter Comstock your the nicest guy ever
+Colter Comstock That must've been.... interesting, to say the least...
one time my family was on cart number four and our conductor was instructing everyone to give greetings to bystanders on the road and every cart gave a big howdy to the folks and when we got to our cart he instructed us to give a big old yee haw and maybe one person went. woo about as un enthusiastic as possible already long story short as we passed the next group of people he instructed the other carts to give there greating but our cart was told to give a plane old woo. ill never forget that probably one of my favorite memories.
As a person who grew up going to silver dollar city it's wired into my head to not pull the pull cord unless there is a medical emergency... Or else the conductor will give you one
This just popped up in my feed. Great video. I remember going on the train and there's the part where the robbers say their mom is on the train and go to a random female passenger. The conductor asknif she's really the robber's mom. Usually the guest says no, but this lady said yes and derailed (pun intended) the rest of the skit.
I knew you looked familiar, I go to silver dollar city every year. It's a great family tradition.
I loved those stories, keep them coming.
thanks!
+Themeparkfanatic thank you so much!
LOL, here is one for you then. I worked for a couple seasons at a different theme park operating multiple rides. One of the ones I was operating one evening was a powered launch coaster. It seemed like a normal run and since it was during the Halloween season I was welcoming everyone back as "Boils and Ghouls." Anyway at one point everyone is in and almost ready to go when I hear someone say, "Excuse me sir! Is this thing safe?" About midway along the coaster is a middle aged woman who is strapped in basically at the point of no return and I stop and look at her. Now I am a person who can generally prank anyone I want and usual have the good stories since I was about twice the age of the average worker. And here I am almost dumbfounded someone would ask this question after they are strapped in. So what was about half a second but felt like I had all the time in the world to come up with an answer I pop off and say (while keeping a dead straight face), "I don't know..... But I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night!" The people nearby were cracking up laughing and the woman whom I answered was very flustered to say the least. I ended up finally explaining after she stammered for a bit and everyone had stopped laughing that the ride was checked by maintenance every morning and then tested by the ride operators before starting the day and had operated all day without any issue but every time I remember the "deer in the headlights" look she had I have to laugh a little more.
I parted ways this year from that park due to issues they were having with their supervisory staff and maintenance staff doing their jobs correctly but hopefully I will rise again elsewhere in the near future.
Those are some pretty funny stories! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks! Happy to hear you're enjoying them.
love the stories!!!!!
I love your stories
omg! I was there on the train when that happened!! when you mentioned him slipping you the gun it just triggered that memory. lol
*hiding my head in shame* lol
OMG I was there too! I grew up with a Silver Dollar City season pass so I was familiar with the show, and I remember that particular show being really odd. I had guessed that there was a SNAFU with the shotgun, and I thought the whole team did a great job of improvising through the situation. It really increased my respect for the actors. I think it's great that I can finally hear what had actually happened; I had no idea! Y'all did great, Sir Willow!
I really enjoyed this story! I actually got really excited when I found out you worked at Silver Dollar City! I got to go there once and my friend used to live near there and went all the time. The train robbery was really the highlight of my whole experience. So it was fun to hear this story! The "stick up" joke was just great. :D
I bought a bonnet and wore an old fashioned shirt and skirt when I went and people kept asking me for directions, thinking I worked there. LOL!
Too funny! I think I have been on this ride a good 200 times over the years, its funny to hear the stories!
Love your story's.
I love the train! I always talk my family into riding it at least once while we're there. It's fun to hear these stories from your point of view. I'm wondering if I'm met you before!!
love your stories!!
It was kind of cute hearing about the ten year old that was trying to summon help when he thought the train was being robbed.
Sir willow I love your videos
honestly i think the show would be better if the robbers were super dumb and one actually gave the conductor his gun
The train ride has to be my favorite thing there, and you do look kinda familiar too. Now one thing needs to be asked, how many times has some lady been accused of being "Ma" and actually went along with it? The one time I saw that happen, I think the guys putting on the show were laughing even harder than we were on the train!
We don't talk about such things happening. It's not in the script. ;-)
It happened about 1/3 rd of the time when I was there, and of course we had a script for that.
C: "Lady? do you claim these boys to be your sons?"
Lady: "Yes"
C: "You do?!"
Bolins: "She does?!"
C: "Lady ... you ain't supposed to do that ..." etc.
Bolins & conductor act like it's never happened before ...
One of the few times when the conductor gets the laughs.
Shhhhh. :-P
LOL! I was on the train when you lost your gun. Great improv!
as many times as I've heard people say they were on that train, I'm starting to think it must have held a couple of thousand people. lol
What bit of improv do you remember from it?
I think i was at the show when you dropped the gun.
This is the greatest channel.. how am I just now discovering you??
I love your silver dollar city stores also silver dollar city is my only theme park I went to.
I love silver dollar city!!
I wanted to go this spring break but it was expected to snow there but it didn't! I really wanted to go and go back to the place they do glass stuff.... oh well I can go again another time
I've probably ridden the train thousands of times, and I've never seen the pull cord pulled.
Found a video that shows the train robbers OMG that was epic. Seems like a such a awesome place to go. Is it expensive?
depending on what kind of discounts you can find, it will typically run between $40-60/ day per person. Online tickets are $62 for adults and seniors and $51 for kids.
The Crazy Family Show it's fun
The face you make when some trys to hand you there baby in the middle of the woods
I'm sad Dolly wood had one but it's gone now
I can't believe I'm the only one to ask here but -- Why in the world did the conductors have real, loaded shotguns? It sounds as if the fluke accident of the gun falling down and off the train -- and firing? -- is enough to make me wonder about the safety of this.
the only time the gun is loaded is right before it's fired, and it's only loaded with a blank gunpowder charge. If you ever watch a video of the robbery, you'll see the conductor load it as he's going down the steps to leave and get back on the train. Otherwise the gun is never loaded, and certainly not with a shotgun shell (it's actually fitted so a regular shell can't go in it) just to make sure there aren't any "incidents"
You answered the question I asked and even the one I didn't ask but wanted to: it was loaded with a blank to go off. Thanks for the answer and for these vids.
And impressive coaster (and park) count!
Best story is at 4:16. I love your story's, I volunteer at the Illinois Railway Museum in Union IL and I can tell you would definitely be the conductor of the year if you volunteered at our museum. Stop over one time and pay us a visit.
that would be a lot of fun. Hopefully sometime in the future
SirWillow plus be sure to check out my UA-cam channel where I posted my Illinois Railway Museum videos, I noticed you lettered all your trains at Silver Dollar City are lettered FRISCO, well at our museum we actually have a operational steam locomotive that worked for the real Frisco railroad it's a 2-10-0 Russian Decapod #1630. Why Russian? Because it was built by the Baldwin locomotive works in Philadelphia during the First World War, but it was destined to be shipped to Russia for their 5 foot gauge, but then the Balisovic Revolution happened and it was sent back to Baldwin and re gauge back to US railroad standards. Plus your Train stories have got this train lover to subscribe to your channel.
Matthew Gustafson the reason SDC has Frisco everywhere is because they are the ones who originally laid down the track. They did it free in exchange for having their logo and name on the trains as a means of advertising. Now that the Frisco is gone, I believe that SDC is the only operating railroad legally using and called the Frisco anymore.
I bet it's hilarious when fellow cast members or people that remember working with you Coke across these videos and are like I remember that guy 😂😂
*come not coke
They do like to give me a bad time when I visit them at SDC. And I've had a couple from Disney and Busch get ahold of me because of the videos, which is pretty neat.
You said that "most" of the time the cord being pulled was a false alarm. Can you give any stories of when it wasn't a false alarm...if there enough, maybe it can be a future episode!
Thankfully I didn't personally have it pulled when it wasn't. But a couple of my co-workers did. But because it's not "my" story, my details may be fuzzy or inaccurate, so I'm hesitant to share it.
This may have been answered and I missed it. But why does the conductor have a real gun? Is it loaded? I'm kinda confused.
I love dreaming of working on the train with the throttle and everythong
I was on that train where the robber gave you his gun. I go to SDC several times a year we always ride the train
Oh great, someone who witnessed my humiliation. lol I hope it ended up a funny show for you. I was to stressed to really know. :-)
I probably seen you when I was younger which is crazy
Lots of people saw me when I was younger. lol The train takes well over a half million riders over the course of a year (now that's a crazy number!!), so you're far from alone.
@@SirWillow I know it's just cool to think
Does Alphie ever get shot?
So I remember that gun issue from a few years ago
Which gun issue? Unless you worked with the train at the time, you'd never be aware of when the gun was dropped. Just might wonder why the conductor didn't have it for the one show.
SirWillow no sorry i meant when you walked up to the train robbers without your gun
ahh, so you were on that one train? Only train that ever saw me without a gun. lol In the three years i was there I think there might have been only one other where the conductor didn't have a gun, and that was also a mistake.
Awkward shows are the best in my opinion
Surely if you needed to get the train back quickly, you'd just tell o'l Ichabod to get the train goin to 12 mph
depends on how much 'shine he's had. lol
What was your favorite ride when you worked there. Mine personally was fire in the hole.
Outlaw Run. I absolutely love that coaster. :-)
SirWillow how bout non roller coasters?
depends on the weather and who I'm with then. Attraction would be the cave tour if that counts. :-)
SirWillow yep that counts good choice
did the train ever derail
Logan Smith don't hope for that
Where is silver dollar city?
+TheAnonymousWaffle Branson, Missouri
Why does the conductor carry a real shotgun? Like protection purposes? Or strictly entertainment
Sounds like you need to watch a video of the train robbery. :-) He's gotta have something to protect him self from those outlaw train robbers
SirWillow I guess so! Thanks for replying!
I might be very stupid but is sliver Dollar city in Disney also I love you videos Sirwillow
No, Silver Dollar City is a theme park in Branson, Missouri, in the Ozark Mountains in the south west corner of the state. Disney of course is in Florida and California, both being about a 2-3 day drive away.
SirWillow this was in Missouri?
SolitaryAuto yes
i used to carrr my police handheld into silver listing to everyone my batter bit the dust going to have get another last year year before we went dow to listing to musis down the valley people's past out when it got hot
O-O but if there was a boom, the gun went off....what did it hit?!
branfeather the gun didn't go off- it wasn't loaded. We never went around with a loaded gun- we only ever loaded it about 1 or 2 seconds before we fired it. the "boom" was the clip that held the gun in place breaking but it sounded like a tree branch landed on top of the train car.
Thank goodness o-o no chance of accidental injury then ^-^
why in the world would the conductor have a real shotgun? why isn't it a cap gun? i find that extremely hard to believe that in today's society that would be allowed i could understand if that's what they did when the park first opened way way back but not now.
it's a real shotgun. Many places that still do an "old west" style show will use real guns for the authentic look and sound. Cap guns look and sound like exactly that- and sorry but that's crappy. There are numerous procedures for safe handling and to keep it away from guests. They actually have an insert put in them so they can't shoot regular shotgun shells but only specially ordered blanks. But if you want it to look and sound real, then you go with real.