What is the name of the Disneyland mine train roller coaster?

What is the name of the Disneyland mine train roller coaster? Big Thunder Mountain Railroad is Disneyland’s mine train roller coaster.

The attraction opened at Disneyland on September 2, 1979, in Frontierland. It depicts runaway mine trains racing through a fictional gold-mining settlement and a landscape inspired by the American Southwest. Its backstory says that mining disturbed a sacred mountain, after which an earthquake devastated the town and left the trains running without crews.

Imagineer Tony Baxter and ride engineer Bill Watkins designed the attraction. The project grew from ideas for a much larger western-themed complex called Western River Expedition, but the mine-train concept was separated into a standalone ride. At Disneyland, the attraction occupies land formerly used by Mine Train Through Nature’s Wonderland, and several details—including Rainbow Ridge and some animal figures—pay tribute to that predecessor.

The name can cause confusion because Disney parks use slightly different titles. Disneyland and Walt Disney World use the full name Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, while the Tokyo and Paris versions are generally called Big Thunder Mountain. Matterhorn is also a Disneyland coaster, but it is a bobsled-style ride rather than a mine train.