"Wonderful Mountain Schute" Toboggan
Menlo Park
West Park Avenue and 3rd Street
The “Wonderful Mountain Schute” opened for riders on Decoration Day 1894. This amusement ride was ½ mile long- containing 12,000 bolts and 50,000 feet of lumber. A 25-horsepower engine and a 47-horsepower boiler was required to operate. The cars were made of wood and steel, held 6 passengers, and weighed 800 lbs.
The cars received passengers near the rear of the carousel and ran by gravity, downhill ¼ mile, towards Sellersville where, it turned and came back and was pulled by chain up the hill to the starting point.
On the first Saturday of August 1894, the toboggan operated for 10 hours and carried over 6,000 passengers.
The entire ride lasted 2 minutes and was reported by an interviewed rider as "a very bumpy ride."
The Toboggan operated for about 25 years.
Reference Perkasie Historical Society archives
The cars received passengers near the rear of the carousel and ran by gravity, downhill ¼ mile, towards Sellersville where, it turned and came back and was pulled by chain up the hill to the starting point.
On the first Saturday of August 1894, the toboggan operated for 10 hours and carried over 6,000 passengers.
The entire ride lasted 2 minutes and was reported by an interviewed rider as "a very bumpy ride."
The Toboggan operated for about 25 years.
Reference Perkasie Historical Society archives