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Cool Rides
How about a submarine ride? An ore car train ride. A ride on a 
roller coaster qualifies. So do carousel rides. What if it’s a unique
solar-powered carousel?
Then it really qualifies as a cool ride! There are unusual buses used for unusual tours. Like that old VW bus tour of Coronado Island in Southern California. There’s that hearse tour in Los Angeles that takes you around to where murders, suicides and scandals took place. There are the dogfights over the Pacific Ocean in vintage biplanes and there are the Lulu lobster boat rides 
on the Atlantic Ocean.
America abounds with scenic railroads. Some of the coolest scenic train rides are on Narrow Gauge tracks with steam locomotives.
There’s a cool old lumber train where the coaches are logs sectioned out to hold passengers. There’s a tour on a ghost train. And you can even have Thanksgiving dinner on a train in Maine. (Yeah, I know. That sounds very Dr. Seussy.) There are other dinner trains across the U.S, too. A cool ride plus dinner! Yeah! Canal boats are another cool ride. I mean the old style ones like in Pennsylvania and Ohio 
that are pulled by mules along the tow paths.
There’s another kind of canal boat ride in California, the gondola rides in Venice and on Coronado Island. There are dogsled rides at night in Vermont and there are sleigh rides into an elk herd in Utah. A couple of states have mail boat rides, Maine and Oregon. More cool rides in Oregon include a tiny 4-car ferry across the Willamette River. There are snowmobiles,
covered wagons,
and “stump-jumpers”. There are sleighs pulled by reindeer, steamboat rides and airboat rides and tugboat rides. Inner tube rides and outrigger canoe rides and
schooner rides
. There are
cog railways
and
incline railways.
Plus there’s elevator rides. Elevator rides? Sure. Why not?
And, hey… don’t tell anyone, but escalator rides are cool, too.
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