to the bottom of the New River Gorge at Hawks Nest, and a three-quarter-mile trip, with a 1,200-foot drop, to the shore of the Bluestone River at Pipestem. Rick Steelhammer is a features reporter.

Rosenello said the tram cars still have technology and parts that date to 1939, making them impossible to replace today. Last year, BSID priced what it would cost to build replacement towing cars ...

The new aerial tram will be fully ADA-accessible. It will carry three cars up and down the canyon from the Hawks Nest Lodge to the New River south of the New River Gorge Bridge. It will still ...

Starting this weekend, Wildwood will test a new Ford Maverick hybrid truck that will pull tram cars along the boardwalk along with those fronted by the existing fleet of battery-operated trams ...

The tram cars represent a significant part of Wildwood history. They debuted in 1939 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt opened the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadow, New York.

Every visitor to the raucous Wildwood, New ... tram car, please” on a tape recorder in 1971 at the request of her boyfriend at the time, who worked for the family that owned the tram cars ...