Friday night I went with some friends (who gave me a free ticket!
) to the Screams Halloween theme park just south of Dallas. Their website is
http://www.screamspark.com/. It was very well done and we had a most awesome time there. In one of the haunted houses, the "Death Trap Maze", I saw something very unexpected and unusual. After wandering around for awhile (even my good sense of direction didn't keep me from getting lost), I came around a corner and there is a crossing signal complete with a crossbuck sign, 8" incandescent lights, and a mechanical bell. The signal activates when you get close to it. Off to the right of the signal there is a very dark gloomy area. All of a sudden a headlight blinds you and you get blasted with a train horn, and there's a train coming at you! It was a prop but looked basically like a GP30 or something, probably 10 feet tall or so, and it moves on a track. Of course the tracks stop right before it gets to you, but it still made me jump!
Very cool.
