But thanks to a new innovation, his simpler plans for a tourist line through Red Hook appears more realistic.
In the 1980s it was rebuilt as a tourist line and can be ridden today during the summer.
Track rehabilitation for a new tourist line began in October 2009.
During the summer time a tourist line with the number 0 or 10 is started.
Its purpose was primarily to serve as a tourist line to Mount Hiei.
Not the tourist lines bringing sightseers to gape at our diminished world.
It is a tourist line and a public service at the same time.
However, several are in operation on tourist lines.
It is not just a tourist line, as freight is also transported.
Initial efforts focused on a possible steam-powered tourist line, but this proved impractical.