It's a great "little" coaster, with several elements like above and below ground tunnels, close clearance on the last downward helix, the disappearing cars on the last drop and the headchopper into the tunnel. But, it used to be so much better, back before all of the theming was removed. There were more trees, and it various objects throughout that made it actually feel like a mine train in "Dahlonega, Ga.".
This wasn't the one you rode. I remember it. It was a wooden coaster, and one of the first things you experienced was a 'covered bridge' and there was a wooden board not too far above your head, just before you took your first plunge.
Write Weird when i first rode it the friken end scared the daylights outta me cause we were in da back where we couldnt see anything and all of a sudden thwres this drop
"This Arrow Dynamics mine train coaster has a rather unusual name. Do you know where it comes from?" Dahlonega, Georgia had a gold rush that I think was the second major one in the USA.
Mike Weber - Liz is correct. It began around 1829/1830 in Lumpkin County Georgia, in which Dahlonega is the county seat, and was the 2nd big gold rush in the United States. The first one was about 30 years earlier in North Carolina. About 20 years after Georgia's gold was discovered, miners began to move on to California, where the gold rush was just beginning.
They have really tamed this ride down from when it debuted in 1967. Even the Mini Mine Train 6FoGA had years ago offered more thrills than this current version. As for the unique name....Dahlonega is a town in north Georgia and in 1828 was the site of the first major gold rush in the United States.
Loved it, it seems kiddish but it's sooo fun! Especially if you're riding with fun people, it'll make the ride better. I rode it like 5 times when I went, was my first roller coaster too!(:
Funny but as a teen this was my favorite at SFOG. I went twice to that park....once in 1985 when I was 16 and again the next year at 17. I rode about everything including The Mind Bender and The Great American Scream Machine. But The Mine Train is the one I stood in line for at least 3 or 4 times each trip and loved it so much.
I remember writing it in the summer of '69, as a 9-year old. My first coaster ride. It scared me so much I didn't get on it again for about 4 more years, and my family used to go to Six Flags every summer, sometimes two or three times a year. When I finally rode it again I couldn't understand why I was so scared😊
My 8 year old and 6 year old nephews had only ridden this coaster until this past week... we graduated them both to the Mind Bender and then the 8 year old took on GOLIATH! He freaked me out by doing that! He was BARELY tall enough, but his little brother was too short for Goliath. They both grew up a lot in the 2 days we were there, at least when it comes to fear! Lol!
Paul Bryan - I did too, but I just watched a video of it uploaded in 2017 that seemed like it was the faster speed. But Six Flags has added chain link fencing in one area, and it looks awful. I guess they did it after someone did something stupid.
If you want a fast mine train head on down to Six Flags Over Texas, ours was the first and while it's two feet shorter than this, it's 17mph faster at 46mph
I can remember when this was the only roller coaster at SFOG...oh, right next door was a small kiddie coaster. Yo!!!! That was when admission was under 10 bucks.
I road this almost 40 years ago when I was 6 years old and we were stationed at Ft. Benning Ga. Back then I think it was called the Runaway Mine Train. That sharp right turn at 1:04 scared the crap out of me. Dad wouldn't let me or my sister ride the Scream Machine or the Mind Bender because we were too young.
i rode this yesterday and the woman who was supposed to pull down our safety bar (which could only then be pulled down by an attendant) completely skipped us and the ride was about to start.she had already gotten behind the gate and was signaling that it was ready to go. we had to literally scream at the people to get their attention. this is a small coaster compared to others at the park but still i'm pretty sure we would've died. probably the scariest moment of the day, and it came from the mine train lol
I just find it so interesting how times and safety measures have changed. I noticed it now has fin brakes instead of the old asbestos friction brakes. I ran an Arrow coaster like this in Nashville for a few years. Stacking those coasters at the end. LOL. I remember it well.
This ride was rebuilt in the 90s by O.D. Hopkins Company. They ripped out the old supports (which were real timber like Cedar Creek Mine Ride) and replaced them with steel, so it lost a lot in the looks department after that. Before the rebuild it was capable of running 4 trains, but the new control system can only handle 3 at once (although it still has 4 trains).
The look of it when I first saw this coaster, my best friend, myself, and my sister thought this was a kiddy ride... So before we was going to leave Six Flags we decided to get on this ride and OMG it was the best ride, it was so fast and fun!!! I loved the NINJA, MINE, AND THE MINDBENDER!!
I grew up going to SFOG. I can remember the Dahlonega Mine Train being the only roller coaster. The Great American Scream Machine came years later. I worked there the Summers I turned 16 & 17 and there would be a special day just for employees to ride everything. Good memories!!
This is the roughest ride in the park. I'm a coaster freak but mine trains should be more family friendly. The last time I rode this was my last for life. 10 minuets after riding I could barely move my back. This is Arrow Dynamics at their worst.
This ride will slam your back against the hard plastic seat back and it will hurt for quite a while. I say this as someone who rode it as a teen and early 20-something years ago and it was rougher than any of their tallest coasters.
Agree. This baby coaster packs a punch. There is one sharp circle it takes around a tree and that's where it threw my spine all out of whack. I do like its old time ride appeal. Nothing high tech here, just natural woods.
You guys are looking at a very old roller coaster! Of course it's going to be boring when you compare it to the coasters that are around these days. But the Mine Train is still an entertaining ride. When I was younger this was THE coaster. It wasn't until many years later that the Great American Scream Machine came along. Then the rest is history. Each coaster got bigger, better and faster. You just have to appreciate it for what it is.
Retro fitted with fin brakes! The Arrow coaster I ran (Timber Topper/Rock N Roller Coaster) still had those old flat skid brakes and everything manually done. Arrow coasters were good family rides to ease kids into bigger, scarier coasters.
The origin of this ride’s name is very interesting, mostly because it is was named after a city in Forsyth County located at the north end of Georgia highway 400 and was the site of the first major Gold Rush in the US in 1829
For one thing, mine train coasters do not have loops nor high hills and for another thing, this coaster was built nine years before the first modern looping coaster (Revolution) opened at SFMM.
They only put attendants on the 2nd and 3rd lifts when they are running three trains. If there is only one or two trains running there is only someone on the first lift. Its a safety precaution since there is a good chance a train may stop on a lift due to the next block not being clear. If you're wondering how I know this... I worked at SFOG for 2 seasons in the rides department. :-)
This was pretty fun overall! I’m sure it would make a great first coaster, but the turns were a little rough at times. I remember doing this with some friends after we ate so we could still ride some rides but to make sure no one would throw up on the more intense rides lol
As per Wikipedia: "This is a family coaster that is named after Dahlonega, Georgia, a village in northern Georgia that was a center of a gold rush in 1828."
during season pass holder appreciation day a few months ago me and my friends rode batman and bought those cape things..then we got on this and the entire time we leaned forward with our arms out and did the hole nananana batman thing the entire time!
Since I posted the comment below, I've been to this ride. It's really FUN! I'm SUPER scared of roller coasters, but this is one of the few that I can actually handle. And to be honest, this video give NO justice to this ride. It's REALLY rough (I rode it about 5 hours ago and my back still hurts a bit) and it goes 29 MPH, so not really too much of a kid ride...
I have a video of this ride (not on my channel) in which the lady beside me lost her hat on the first hill and the lady behind us caught it. Most epic thing at a train rounding a corner.
I remember back in the late 70s being afraid I'd be to short time ride this! Great coaster when I was a kid. Btw, in the 1980s I lost my little league cap on it. Anybody find it? please please
In response to your do you know where the name came from...The name of the coaster, Dahlonega Mine Train, comes from the city Dahlonega, Ga. It is famous for housing the Dahlonega Gold Mines, which is where gold was discovered. If you notice the ride looks like a mine, of course, hence the name Dahlonega Mine Train. Were you asking or you already knew and wanted to see if we did?
Fun coaster if you have small children that are just getting their feet wet to roller coasters. I took my 6yr old and 9 yr old, their 1st coaster at Fright Fest and they really enjoyed it. Saw some past comments about someone getting their back hurt at the end. It does get a little bumpy at the end but I was fine. The only part I hate is that tunnel, I'm 6'5" and feel like my head is about to hit that metal piping at the top of the tunnel lol.
Lift hill (the ride) , usually you associate mine train rides with a small thin track , so when you see this mine train with massive large track it is unusual
I like this little roller coaster. It is quite bumpy and not nearly as fast as the new larger coasters but it is still a fun ride. I think I was about 6 the first time I rode it.
This might be me but I feel like this ride is telling a story,like it's about an old and condemned mine train attraction and there reopening it for the new generation.
When SFOG opened in 1967 (when I was 7) my Dad tried to get me to go on it, but I chickened out and ran back out of the queue area. I guess I saw something I didn't like! Maybe if he'd known and been able to tell me it was built by the same company as the Disneyland Matterhorn, which I'd done the year before with no problem, it would have been OK. Just for some Memory Lane trivia, there used to be a tunnel after the second lift, but by 1979 or so it was probably in danger of caving in, so they took it out.
@JulianneSparrow2 lol, just came back from Orlando and love the mummy for all its years of loyal ride time ^_^ Haha, yea it is a bit dark but that's part of the fun! Great catch with your face ^_^ Wish the camera had gotten to see it ^_^
This was my first coaster at age 4 😊 10 years ago good times but I remember I was 5 and it started raining when I was on the ride and the stopped it so fast that I had my head and got a headache but I will always love my very first coaster
Who here remembers Thunder Express at Dollywood? This mine train reminds me of the Thunder Express quite a bit, especially the ending tunnel. Long before they replaced it with the Tennessee Tornado looping Arrow coaster. One of the same tunnels is still there that they kept when they made Tennessee Tornado, the tunnel the train drops down into just before going into that huge loop. Which one do I prefer? ....Tennessee Tornado over Thunder Express! =) Though, Thunder Express was one of my first major coasters I rode back when I was 10 or 11 in the early 90's. Glad Dollywood has kept some of the older ones like Blazing Fury. Wish they'd kept the Flooded Mine, but o well..
I have never been to six flags but this ride looks so much fun. My friend she said that there's just a bar holding you in and she is so skinny and light weight that she flew up in the seat. She was so scared, but she was with her sister and not her mom. I can see why she was so scared now. Like if have been to six flags or if you have never been to six flags Thanks
I believe it is named after a town in Georgia where the largest gold nugget in the state was found. An old friend of my wife's lives there. What was the point of the 2nd and 3rd lift hills? The front car was at the bottom of the drop before the last one cleared the lift chain.
Dahlonega was the site of the first gold rush ever in the US. The original find was a FIFTEEN POUND nugget of native gold that someone picked up in a stream bed and used for a door stop for a while before they realised what it was. Prospectors who hadn't struck it rich in Dahlonega left when the heard about the Sutter's Mill strike that started the 1849 California gold rush. The head of the local assay office tried to persuade the miners not to leave with a speech that included the line "There's still plenty of gold in these hills" (which you may have heard misquoted in a lot of jokes...)
Mike Weber There is a placed called The Smith House Inn in town that sits over an active vein. The story goes as told by a friend of my wife's who we visited there in 2007 that the owner of the inn seemed to be able to afford a lot more than his income from the inn would suggest. He sold it and left town to retire and the new owners found the tunnel into the mine. We went there for dinner and there is a display case in the lobby with a nugget that is VERY large that came out of the mine. This is how I heard it. I looked it up on line to get the name and it tells a different story of the man who built the original house that is now the lobby building for the inn hitting the vein during construction.
You know, the last time I went to six flags, I tried going on this ride but I was rejected by the controllers twice. The first time was due to the car restraints and the second time was because of the park closing. I was disappointed.
I went on this ride during the week Six Flags Over Georgia first opened back in 1967 and rode this ride. I seem to recall that near the end where you get jerked to the side when you get out of the tunnel that there was a light straight ahead. It looked like you were going out that way and you'd be jerked off the other way. It was the coolest part of the ride! What happened to the light?
I can't believe this is the same ride I loved in 1967. My first terrain coaster.
It's a great "little" coaster, with several elements like above and below ground tunnels, close clearance on the last downward helix, the disappearing cars on the last drop and the headchopper into the tunnel. But, it used to be so much better, back before all of the theming was removed. There were more trees, and it various objects throughout that made it actually feel like a mine train in "Dahlonega, Ga.".
Ahh, this is why I'm not remembering based on this video. There were barns and what not theming that the trains went through.
This was the only "rollercoaster" I could go on, I will never ride an actual rollercoaster, I'm terrified of heights
Emily Lorenz I went to Busch gardens and rode all of the rides in VA
Yeaaa😭😭😂😂😂😂
Emily Lorenz SAME
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Emily Lorenz SAME I HATE LOOKING LIKE A WHIMP IN FRONT OF MY FRIENDS
My first roller coaster ever lol
Me too
I went on that today
Same
Same
Me to but im planning this ride for my cosuion and i 😁
An old favorite. On a school field-trip here in 1981, me and a buddy rode this thing like 5-6 times in a row.
Just the other day, six flags was about to close and no one was there so me and my brother kept getting on because there was no line.
@@Cardioligist Me and my best friend rode this coaster 7 times in one day while our choir was on tour. That last drop is always the best.
This wasn't the one you rode. I remember it. It was a wooden coaster, and one of the first things you experienced was a 'covered bridge' and there was a wooden board not too far above your head, just before you took your first plunge.
This is the first “roller coaster” I really went on tbh I always come back to this roller coaster every time I go
13th my first roller coaster was the twisted cyclone
I hate how this goes so slow at first but then at the end it goes like 2000 mph
close enough XD
funkydoge I only liked your comment because your name is funkydoge
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funkydoge Lmaoo
funkydoge *35 mph (56 kph)
My first roller coaster, years and years ago. I'm so pleased it's still there. Love those noisy Arrow lift hills!
Fun fact: this was the first ride at Six Flags over Georgia
Write Weird when i first rode it the friken end scared the daylights outta me cause we were in da back where we couldnt see anything and all of a sudden thwres this drop
Moonlit Mantis Wow!
Moonlit Mantis this rollercoaster tricks ya!
Another fun fact, Dahlonega is beautiful and everybody should visit it.
@@Kasspyr Yep!
this was the first real roller coaster i ever rode and i didn't like at the end when you go into the tunnel it jerks you around like crazy
True
Sarah Beavers only if you ride on the back
same
I’m saying😂
Nope Not Today no
"This Arrow Dynamics mine train coaster has a rather unusual name. Do you know where it comes from?"
Dahlonega, Georgia had a gold rush that I think was the second major one in the USA.
It was the first.
Mike Weber - Liz is correct. It began around 1829/1830 in Lumpkin County Georgia, in which Dahlonega is the county seat, and was the 2nd big gold rush in the United States. The first one was about 30 years earlier in North Carolina. About 20 years after Georgia's gold was discovered, miners began to move on to California, where the gold rush was just beginning.
Was up
@@33MarciS Hence, why the Carolina Goldrusher rollercoaster (Carowinds) has a fitting name.
it’s all innocent at first but once you hit the cave it goes wild
They have really tamed this ride down from when it debuted in 1967. Even the Mini Mine Train 6FoGA had years ago offered more thrills than this current version.
As for the unique name....Dahlonega is a town in north Georgia and in 1828 was the site of the first major gold rush in the United States.
Loved it, it seems kiddish but it's sooo fun! Especially if you're riding with fun people, it'll make the ride better. I rode it like 5 times when I went, was my first roller coaster too!(:
My favorite ride at Six Flags! :-)
Mine too, it's one of my favorites. I've gone on this a lot
Tyler Yong deal with it
Tyler Yong people can have opinions
Tyler Yong but you're criticizing others for their opinions. Plus, you didn't really state an opinion
Carrie Underwood Fan08 mines the Goliath I first rode when I was 9
I was scared
Funny but as a teen this was my favorite at SFOG. I went twice to that park....once in 1985 when I was 16 and again the next year at 17. I rode about everything including The Mind Bender and The Great American Scream Machine. But The Mine Train is the one I stood in line for at least 3 or 4 times each trip and loved it so much.
I don't get why this is so popular. It is slow then fast then it's done.
The ending makes you feel like it will hit your head. I'm tall and i know how it feels
KittenAndpuppyluv SAME
Oh for real. Me and my friend forced our heads as low as possible when we saw that drop coming
When I was 12 years old I did hit my head during the last drop.
I remember writing it in the summer of '69, as a 9-year old. My first coaster ride. It scared me so much I didn't get on it again for about 4 more years, and my family used to go to Six Flags every summer, sometimes two or three times a year. When I finally rode it again I couldn't understand why I was so scared😊
My 8 year old and 6 year old nephews had only ridden this coaster until this past week... we graduated them both to the Mind Bender and then the 8 year old took on GOLIATH! He freaked me out by doing that! He was BARELY tall enough, but his little brother was too short for Goliath. They both grew up a lot in the 2 days we were there, at least when it comes to fear! Lol!
I remember this ride being alot faster than it is now. They definitely slowed it down quite a bit. But it still is a great ride!
Paul Bryan - I did too, but I just watched a video of it uploaded in 2017 that seemed like it was the faster speed. But Six Flags has added chain link fencing in one area, and it looks awful. I guess they did it after someone did something stupid.
If you want a fast mine train head on down to Six Flags Over Texas, ours was the first and while it's two feet shorter than this, it's 17mph faster at 46mph
Yea I did too when I was on it it was a lot faster
I was on the last ride of the decade in 2019 and I think they kicked the speed up then
I can remember when this was the only roller coaster at SFOG...oh, right next door was a small kiddie coaster. Yo!!!! That was when admission was under 10 bucks.
I road this almost 40 years ago when I was 6 years old and we were stationed at Ft. Benning Ga. Back then I think it was called the Runaway Mine Train. That sharp right turn at 1:04 scared the crap out of me. Dad wouldn't let me or my sister ride the Scream Machine or the Mind Bender because we were too young.
It's a good starter rollercoaster, but it would be better if the final drop was smoother.
Miriam Sawyer
yea me and a few friends went and we went on this ride for the lols and my hip got locked in to place on the last part
Logan Palmer the final drop is fine
You wanna smooth ride? Try the Georgia Cyclone.
They should have named this ride "Dahlonega Backbreaker"
how exciting must it be for ride ops to stand at the top of the lift hill? 0:38
I mean at least you wave to riders as you melt in the Georgia heat
Love this ride as a kid. I need to plan a trip to Six Flags in 2018. Sadly I do not live in GA anymore, but I will make my return one day!
The name Dahlonega comes from the name of a town in the north Georgia mountains where gold was discovered and mined.
I'm very happy they made a ride out of our small mountain town!
Dahlonega Is a town seat in GA and is also a Gold rush area years ago.
i rode this yesterday and the woman who was supposed to pull down our safety bar (which could only then be pulled down by an attendant) completely skipped us and the ride was about to start.she had already gotten behind the gate and was signaling that it was ready to go. we had to literally scream at the people to get their attention. this is a small coaster compared to others at the park but still i'm pretty sure we would've died. probably the scariest moment of the day, and it came from the mine train lol
stfu u have no clue
+Swift lucasben About?
+Marx how rides work and the safety behind them
+Swift lucasben you mean how they forgot to do something as simple as closing there seat things. Ok.. Stay in school.
Maybe if you fell from the 40 foot mark but other than that I think you would have been fine unless it ran over you...
I just find it so interesting how times and safety measures have changed. I noticed it now has fin brakes instead of the old asbestos friction brakes. I ran an Arrow coaster like this in Nashville for a few years. Stacking those coasters at the end. LOL. I remember it well.
This ride was rebuilt in the 90s by O.D. Hopkins Company. They ripped out the old supports (which were real timber like Cedar Creek Mine Ride) and replaced them with steel, so it lost a lot in the looks department after that. Before the rebuild it was capable of running 4 trains, but the new control system can only handle 3 at once (although it still has 4 trains).
The look of it when I first saw this coaster, my best friend, myself, and my sister thought this was a kiddy ride... So before we was going to leave Six Flags we decided to get on this ride and OMG it was the best ride, it was so fast and fun!!! I loved the NINJA, MINE, AND THE MINDBENDER!!
Always is a ice breaker to the bigger rides..... children love it....Where kid can be a kid..... Favorite
I grew up going to SFOG. I can remember the Dahlonega Mine Train being the only roller coaster. The Great American Scream Machine came years later. I worked there the Summers I turned 16 & 17 and there would be a special day just for employees to ride everything. Good memories!!
This is the roughest ride in the park. I'm a coaster freak but mine trains should be more family friendly. The last time I rode this was my last for life. 10 minuets after riding I could barely move my back. This is Arrow Dynamics at their worst.
This ride will slam your back against the hard plastic seat back and it will hurt for quite a while. I say this as someone who rode it as a teen and early 20-something years ago and it was rougher than any of their tallest coasters.
Agree. This baby coaster packs a punch. There is one sharp circle it takes around a tree and that's where it threw my spine all out of whack. I do like its old time ride appeal. Nothing high tech here, just natural woods.
You guys are looking at a very old roller coaster! Of course it's going to be boring when you compare it to the coasters that are around these days. But the Mine Train is still an entertaining ride. When I was younger this was THE coaster. It wasn't until many years later that the Great American Scream Machine came along. Then the rest is history. Each coaster got bigger, better and faster. You just have to appreciate it for what it is.
Love this one. For just a little bit you think, what a smooth ride, the next thing you know, Bam!
I remember back in the day when you were suddenly plunged into total darkness and how relieved you were to find out you were still alive.
Retro fitted with fin brakes! The Arrow coaster I ran (Timber Topper/Rock N Roller Coaster) still had those old flat skid brakes and everything manually done. Arrow coasters were good family rides to ease kids into bigger, scarier coasters.
This coaster glides like smooth butter on straight parts. Transitions on this thing kills every time, especially the turns in the tunnel. Ouch.
that ride was really fun for me at least
The only mine train coaster I've been on is King's Island's
"Adventure Express"
So I really don't know how other mine trains stand up to it
Well Georgia Scorcher really STANDS up... ba dum tiss
Was just here today! Looked it up. The drop is a great sensation.
The origin of this ride’s name is very interesting, mostly because it is was named after a city in Forsyth County located at the north end of Georgia highway 400 and was the site of the first major Gold Rush in the US in 1829
I rode this as a kid and it was rough then :)
It is an Arrow Dynamics coaster built in the 1960s.
For one thing, mine train coasters do not have loops nor high hills and for another thing, this coaster was built nine years before the first modern looping coaster (Revolution) opened at SFMM.
I was in second seat
They only put attendants on the 2nd and 3rd lifts when they are running three trains. If there is only one or two trains running there is only someone on the first lift. Its a safety precaution since there is a good chance a train may stop on a lift due to the next block not being clear. If you're wondering how I know this... I worked at SFOG for 2 seasons in the rides department. :-)
This was pretty fun overall! I’m sure it would make a great first coaster, but the turns were a little rough at times. I remember doing this with some friends after we ate so we could still ride some rides but to make sure no one would throw up on the more intense rides lol
Anna i have a gut felling you drank fizzy soda at the park i drink alcohol n case someone wonts to talk in the Queue line
As per Wikipedia: "This is a family coaster that is named after Dahlonega, Georgia, a village in northern Georgia that was a center of a gold rush in 1828."
I took my girlfriend to Six Flags over Georgia back on Labor Day 2012, and this was the first ride we went on when we got there.
As most Six Flags parks have similar coasters, this is a sister mine train to Magic Mountain's Gold Rusher.
during season pass holder appreciation day a few months ago me and my friends rode batman and bought those cape things..then we got on this and the entire time we leaned forward with our arms out and did the hole nananana batman thing the entire time!
Since I posted the comment below, I've been to this ride. It's really FUN! I'm SUPER scared of roller coasters, but this is one of the few that I can actually handle. And to be honest, this video give NO justice to this ride. It's REALLY rough (I rode it about 5 hours ago and my back still hurts a bit) and it goes 29 MPH, so not really too much of a kid ride...
That train is so awesome!! i screamed like a baby!!
I have a video of this ride (not on my channel) in which the lady beside me lost her hat on the first hill and the lady behind us caught it. Most epic thing at a train rounding a corner.
I recommend this ride especially for beginners its awesome even if u r not a beginner
This is my favorite ride
I thought this ride was gonna be slow when I first got on it. It was so fun. I loved the hill and turn at the end :)
this was my first ever rollercoaster
Aleya West awww
Ok I'm 12, but this ride is amazing! A little jerky but it made my friends and I laugh like crazy. I recommend it
The name comes from a town that was the site of a gold rush... this is a pretty good coaster for a kids coaster
The ride is called the dahlonaga mine train because their is a city in northern georgia called dahlonega and they have mines up htere
I remember back in the late 70s being afraid I'd be to short time ride this! Great coaster when I was a kid. Btw, in the 1980s I lost my little league cap on it. Anybody find it? please please
radioman970 I went 2 days ago, never saw a cap
Nearly lost my hat riding this ride also lol. Some other kid right behind caught it and gave it back to me right before the drop
In response to your do you know where the name came from...The name of the coaster, Dahlonega Mine Train, comes from the city Dahlonega, Ga. It is famous for housing the Dahlonega Gold Mines, which is where gold was discovered. If you notice the ride looks like a mine, of course, hence the name Dahlonega Mine Train. Were you asking or you already knew and wanted to see if we did?
Fun coaster if you have small children that are just getting their feet wet to roller coasters. I took my 6yr old and 9 yr old, their 1st coaster at Fright Fest and they really enjoyed it. Saw some past comments about someone getting their back hurt at the end. It does get a little bumpy at the end but I was fine. The only part I hate is that tunnel, I'm 6'5" and feel like my head is about to hit that metal piping at the top of the tunnel lol.
Coasterforce, this ride was named after Dolonoga GA and its mining
This may be a kiddie coaster but it's a Classic!
Lift hill (the ride) , usually you associate mine train rides with a small thin track , so when you see this mine train with massive large track it is unusual
I like this little roller coaster. It is quite bumpy and not nearly as fast as the new larger coasters but it is still a fun ride. I think I was about 6 the first time I rode it.
This might be me but I feel like this ride is telling a story,like it's about an old and condemned mine train attraction and there reopening it for the new generation.
Similarities to Gold Rusher are remarkable.
When SFOG opened in 1967 (when I was 7) my Dad tried to get me to go on it, but I chickened out and ran back out of the queue area. I guess I saw something I didn't like! Maybe if he'd known and been able to tell me it was built by the same company as the Disneyland Matterhorn, which I'd done the year before with no problem, it would have been OK. Just for some Memory Lane trivia, there used to be a tunnel after the second lift, but by 1979 or so it was probably in danger of caving in, so they took it out.
@JulianneSparrow2 lol, just came back from Orlando and love the mummy for all its years of loyal ride time ^_^ Haha, yea it is a bit dark but that's part of the fun! Great catch with your face ^_^ Wish the camera had gotten to see it ^_^
Yeah the name comes from the old Dahlonega Gold Mines from back in the day. It's supposed to replicate an old mine car.
i love this ride! it was my first roller coaster.
This was my first coaster at age 4 😊 10 years ago good times but I remember I was 5 and it started raining when I was on the ride and the stopped it so fast that I had my head and got a headache but I will always love my very first coaster
i luv this ride me and my friend rode it like 4 times in a row. best ride EVER!!!!!!
Dude, I love this coaster!
I always scream at the drop near the end though.XD
I actually had never been on this ride until just last November xD... My first ride was Georgia Cyclone haha
Who here remembers Thunder Express at Dollywood? This mine train reminds me of the Thunder Express quite a bit, especially the ending tunnel. Long before they replaced it with the Tennessee Tornado looping Arrow coaster. One of the same tunnels is still there that they kept when they made Tennessee Tornado, the tunnel the train drops down into just before going into that huge loop. Which one do I prefer? ....Tennessee Tornado over Thunder Express! =) Though, Thunder Express was one of my first major coasters I rode back when I was 10 or 11 in the early 90's. Glad Dollywood has kept some of the older ones like Blazing Fury. Wish they'd kept the Flooded Mine, but o well..
So excited going this Saturday flash pass and everything.
I just love this ride soooooooooo much.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have never been to six flags but this ride looks so much fun. My friend she said that there's just a bar holding you in and she is so skinny and light weight that she flew up in the seat. She was so scared, but she was with her sister and not her mom. I can see why she was so scared now. Like if have been to six flags or if you have never been to six flags
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This was my first ever roller-coaster i rode when I was 5 years old
I dont really care for rollercoasters, but this one looks kind of fun because it doesnt go too fast except for at the end.
I believe it is named after a town in Georgia where the largest gold nugget in the state was found. An old friend of my wife's lives there.
What was the point of the 2nd and 3rd lift hills? The front car was at the bottom of the drop before the last one cleared the lift chain.
Dahlonega was the site of the first gold rush ever in the US. The original find was a FIFTEEN POUND nugget of native gold that someone picked up in a stream bed and used for a door stop for a while before they realised what it was.
Prospectors who hadn't struck it rich in Dahlonega left when the heard about the Sutter's Mill strike that started the 1849 California gold rush.
The head of the local assay office tried to persuade the miners not to leave with a speech that included the line "There's still plenty of gold in these hills" (which you may have heard misquoted in a lot of jokes...)
Mike Weber There is a placed called The Smith House Inn in town that sits over an active vein. The story goes as told by a friend of my wife's who we visited there in 2007 that the owner of the inn seemed to be able to afford a lot more than his income from the inn would suggest. He sold it and left town to retire and the new owners found the tunnel into the mine. We went there for dinner and there is a display case in the lobby with a nugget that is VERY large that came out of the mine.
This is how I heard it. I looked it up on line to get the name and it tells a different story of the man who built the original house that is now the lobby building for the inn hitting the vein during construction.
My head slammed onto the side yesterday going down into the tunnel
Dahlonega is a former gold mine town about 70 miles above Atlanta...thus the name.
this is the first ride i go to while taking a trip to six flags
My very first rollercoaster but my 2nd favorite one of the oldest ones there too
Dahlonegha is a city in Georgia. I'm a local. It has a famous gold mine. Yup thats about it.
You know, the last time I went to six flags, I tried going on this ride but I was rejected by the controllers twice. The first time was due to the car restraints and the second time was because of the park closing. I was disappointed.
loved this ride😊..
I went on this ride during the week Six Flags Over Georgia first opened back in 1967 and rode this ride. I seem to recall that near the end where you get jerked to the side when you get out of the tunnel that there was a light straight ahead. It looked like you were going out that way and you'd be jerked off the other way. It was the coolest part of the ride! What happened to the light?
Nothing like the clatter of the backstops on an old Arrow coaster.
The name comes from the nearby hills where gold was discovered, I believe.