Tourist trains in Europe

HotFun tourist train rides, electric and diesel power to choose, the waggon have closed and opened to choose.

Suitable for the area, playgrounds, theme parks, parks, shopping malls, commercial streets, street style. Was the car of choice for large-scale scenic, tourist attractions, leisure plaza, shopping supermarket will add a mobile landscape line your sights.

You may not find this terribly rewarding unless you're included here, so this is a good time for casual and random browsers to turn back before they get too caught up in the sweep and majesty of the proceedings and can't let go.

Gruyères, Switzerland, 2003

We'd noticed them before, of course, but we first began meditating deeply about tourist trains, or 'road trains', in 2003, when the owner of this one in Gruyères noticed our photos on the Web, mistook our anglo-saxon sarcasm, and invited us to edit the English version of his website, which we were pleased to do.

"An innovation since our last visit", we'd written, "A TRAIN so you don't have to walk all about to see the sights! Splendid! The village is only one street about 150 meters long, but this cool train will save you the effort of walking back and forth along it AND take you down to, and back up again from, the cheese factory/museum in Pringy at the bottom of the hill."

We hate sarcasm, we're always sorry we did it afterward. The old weblink leads somewhere else now anyway.

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Trento, northern Italy, December 2013

The classic Dotto Muson River 1894, in Christmas get-up

Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France, December 2014

Cheating a bit, the actual Dotto Muson River Euro 5 was not in service in this cold

Meanwhile, in the USA . . .

The "Hometown Trolley", coursing down the thoroughfares of Ashland, Wisconsin, on Lake Superior, August 2012. That's the brand name (like Dotto and Tschu-Tschu in Europe), based in Crandon, Wisconsin, but with nationwide sales, and this is the Mainstreet model.