Kings Island and Miami Valley Railroad

The Kings Island and Miami Valley Railroad is a transport train ride located in the Rivertown and Soak City sections of Kings Island. In the attraction, guests board a passenger train based on "The General" model of locomotives, and enjoy a smooth ride, with occasional music and commentary from a conductor. The ride functions as an alternative method to reaching the Soak City water park section of the park, with the other option being a walkway in the Planet Snoopy area. It also serves as part of the story for the nearby Mystic Timbers, as the railway was previously used to transport lumber from the Miami River Lumber Company.

History
The Kings Island and Miami Valley Railroad opened with the rest of the park on April 29, 1972, and featured two separate trains based on a locomotive model known as "The General." Initially, the trains went on a complete round-trip, but when Soak City opened in 1989 as WaterWorks, it later served as means of transportation between the Losantivlle station in Rivertown and the water park. Extra scenery themed to Rivertown appears throughout the surrounding area of the tracks.

The attraction was formerly used in conjunction with the Halloween Haunt event, which often featured new antagonists that hijacked or sabotaged the train, forcing guests to continue their journey on foot past scare actors in the former queue line of White Water Canyon. During the Paramount Parks era, one of the attractions utilizing the trains was Headless Hollow, part of the Curse of Sleepy Hollow revamp of Rivertown. Both were themed to the 1999 Paramount film Sleepy Hollow, which in turn was based on Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Following Cedar Fair's acquisition of Paramount Parks, and the renaming of FearFest to Halloween Haunt, the attraction was replaced with Tombstone Terror-tory, and now took on an Old Western theme that has frequently been associated with Rivertown.

Due to the former queue of White Water Canyon being dismantled in order to construct Mystic Timbers during the 2016 season, the attraction is no longer temporarily refurbished for Halloween Haunt. Instead, it now makes round-trips similarly to how it operates during the main season when Soak City has closed for the day. However, the attraction is used during WinterFest as part of a light show reciting the Christmas carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas. During this event, the entrance is relocated to the entrance of White Water Canyon.