If’n ya’ll are wonderin’ ’bout what ‘curred on this day at Disneyland in 1956… why folks, ’twas the opening of the Rainbow Caverns Mine Train. While Guests would scurry around fer a C ticket in their ticketbooks, the ol’ prospector begged some of the dangest questions in a prerecorded spiel, “Did you ever see the Devil’s Paint Pots? Or a giant saguaro cactus forest? Just climb aboard our little mine train for a trip you’ll never forget, through wild and wooly Rainbow Desert… then you’ll chug deep into Rainbow Caverns for the most amazing color spectacle you’ve ever laid eyes on… giant waterfalls flowing all around you, in every color of the rainbow.” And tho’ the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, the wildest ride in the wilderness, done landed in its place since, during yer rides today, on that first uphill lift, ya’ll can still get a glimpse of some of the colorful water pools, kind of an homage I figger, from those days gone by of the Rainbow Caverns.
