It had spent many years at Benson’s Wild Animal Park in Hudson, New Hampshire, a few years at a New Hampshire race track, and then was trucked across the country and restored for the railroad park by Brass Ring Entertainment/Dan Horenberger principal. According to Horenberger, he had to “pack” the carousel horses with special materials so that they would not be too hot to sit on during Scottsdale’s summer heat. The Scottsdale Charros and the Scottsdale Railroad and Mechanical Society funded the purchase, relocation and restoration of the carousel, which became a park-operated attraction (as opposed to a privately-operated concession as the previous carousel had been).
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