Playing Pinball On The Train

Who's going to be the first to model that car?

That's an easy one...... Dale H the relay guy!!!

Hmm.  I sense a marketing theme here based on the music of The Who. 

Roll with me here.

Obviously:

Pinball Wizard:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2aIsj8lcik

5:15:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hcuo4VeNCkQ

Well maybe not.  I don't see either of these videos playing on that Strasburg Railroad car in staid Central Pennsylvania. 

It was a thought. 

George

I cannot imagine wanting to play pinball on a moving train.

The term TILT comes to mind!

Their ad says "Are you wizard enough to beat the classic game while the train taunts you with her own unpredictable tilt?".

I would expect that anybody into pinball would want to play a machine that is set up properly: nice and level on a solid surface.

But no matter, they only need twelve people interested in playing, along with another twelve companions. The price is low. I expect they'll fill the car.

As I recall the Pennsylvania's Jeffersonian, the premium all-coach St Louis- New York City train supposedly featured a pinball machine in the recreation car.  I'm not sure how long it stayed or was even installed.  One "cutaway" advertisement I have does not show the pinball machine.

Lew Schneider

I plan on trying it this summer, more or less just to say that I did it.

I'm thinking they'd have to disable the TILT mechanisms on the machines. As a former "wizard" I'd love a challenge like that. It would also be a good idea to have the machines bolted to the floor. Wish I was back there to try it out. By the way, the photos are not "vintage" machines as they're digital. Vintage would be some of the older electro-mechanical machines from Gottlieb/Chicago Coin, Bally/Midway, or Williams. Williams machines would be a good choice because of their DC playfield which made the bumpers hit a lot harder than the Gottlieb or Bally machines. I think Williams' patent ran out around the time Bally released "Captain Fantastic" as that one was the first Bally with a DC playfield and it played like a Williams.

Well it appears that Matt is a pinball whiz................ I never was good even when the tilt was very forgiving. Although we had one up at the U Tote M by my girlfriends house that you could reach into the back when the clerk wasn't looking and add free games.

The Jeffersonian...reborn !

I'd never tilt. Reason being is some places set the sensor so tight if you jumped up and down on the floor next to the machine it would go. Flippers only, my friend. I got the attendant upset at Circus Circus back in 1988 when I pushed every machine in the room up to its credit limit then walked out. Ah, the days when I was young and stupid.

I met several people who were WAY better than I was, including a husband & wife "tag team" (she was better than he was).

Pinball machines and trains are my main two hobbies.I never thought of actually playing a pinball machine on a train.I would actually like to try this,but I doubt I will be going to the museum anytime soon.

Dan

Here is a new article from the Pinball News website on the train ride with pinball machines at the Strasburg train museum.

Pinball machines on a train article.