92% of all rail ridership in Tennessee, a state with a GDP comparable to Denmark, comes from Dollywood's Express heritage train ride. 27 states have less rail transit ridership than Dollywood. Read that again. - ThreadSky

thetransitguy.com • 11 days ago

92% of all rail ridership in Tennessee, a state with a GDP comparable to Denmark, comes from Dollywood's Express heritage train ride.

27 states have less rail transit ridership than Dollywood.
Read that again.

Comments

aaiqbal.bsky.social•11 days ago

Why is Tennessee itself colored in on the map?

grategatsby.bsky.social•11 days ago

tennessee has 8% the ridership of Dollywood....... it's like saying California is the 5th largest economy in the world.

chocilate.bsky.social•11 days ago

well are we counting amtrak here? this makes less sense if that is true

thetransitguy.com•11 days ago

We are not, sorry the note at the bottom was small, but even so, I don't think any Amtrak train moves 5000 people a day outside the NEC?

chocilate.bsky.social•11 days ago

technically Surfliner, but just barely. I will say, I was surprised to see Wisconsin. For its population, Wisconsin tries to have decent bus and train service for the most populated areas!

thetransitguy.com•11 days ago

Yeah, the Hop and the Kenosha Trolley don't have the ridership combined that Dollywood does (5k)

chocilate.bsky.social•11 days ago

Oh, that's unfortunate (I had a feeling, no one rides the Hop)

dysio.de•11 days ago

I understand why Montana and friends would be there, but... Michigan and Wisconsin surprise me, especially with Ohio and Pennsylvania at least edging out Dollywood

velohench.bsky.social•11 days ago

It's really sad. Michigan used to have a ton of passenger rail, but it's been so gutted that if you want to travel by train from Ann Arbor to Grand Rapids it's a 16 hour ordeal taking you to Chicago then back to Michigan.

My home town had 3 passenger rail lines, now it has none.