This place was so much fun! You board the train and they take you out a little way and stop and then they go backwards through the "haunted forest". Somehow they make it sound like something is hitting the top of the train car. They play creepy music and have ghouls lurking through out the train scaring people. That's their purpose and sometimes little ones don't like that. In a case on our train the ghoul took his mask off so the little kid who was crying hysterically could see he was just a person in a mask.
My 6 year old really wanted to go through the haunted train car which doesn't move. They have about 8 feet of an inflatable thing that is really hard to get through and it freaked her out so we decided not to go through it. She really wanted to so we got back in line. We were the last ones in line from our train ride. The lady operating standing by the entrance offered to turn it off so we could walk through. She did and we walked in and I announced the I had a little girl who really wanted to go through but to please not scare her and they didn't. They all stayed still and didn't scare her. That was so fantastic. The people here are great and we had a fabulous time. I will be taking my daughter on the Polar Express train ride in December. We have also done the lunch with Santa twice and I highly recommend that for little one.