This little train takes people from one end of the parking lot to the other end. The entire length of the trip is about 200 yards or slightly less. Even though it's just as fast as walking, that is from the time it pulls in until it fills with people and then travels to the other end and stops, it still fun to ride. The "Engineer" who operates it said that it was used inside a factory in Europe to move stuff. I don't know how it ended up in the ski resort parking lot.