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Disney World Trains

General Discussion
#1

I didn’t spend a whole lot of time in the Magic Kingdom this year, but did manage to take a few train pictures. I’ve still not seen the Lilly Belle. Last year she was out for restoration. I don’t know if she has returned to Disney World. I wish I would have taken the “Behind the Scenes” train tour again this year. They were only running two trains this time. Last year they were running the Roy O. Disney too. The Roger E. Broggie.

The Walter E. Disney.

The only Monorail picture I took.

And the train from the “Electric Parade”

I took a few videos too. But I’ve not uploaded them yet. Ralph

#2

Great pics, thanks!

Those 4-6-0’s look a lot bigger than any of the locos I’ve seen at Disneyland.

I wonder if they have steam trains at any of the foreign Disney parks?

#3

I would think they would Ray. Walt was a train fanatic. They all know that at Disney, I would think they would keep the trains in all their parks.

#4

Nice pictures Ralph. It’s been a few years since I’ve been there. I don’t recall finding any place where you could get a reasonable angle. You managed to find at least one! Edit to add this pic -

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#5

Taken from “WIKIPIDIA”

In the 50 years since Disneyland opened, Walt’s love of railroads have become an integral part of the Disney tradition. In addition to the original Disneyland in California, there are now railroads circling the Magic Kingdom in Florida, Disneyland Paris in France, and Hong Kong Disneyland in Hong Kong as well as a scenic train ride attraction at Tokyo Disneyland in Japan.

Here’s the link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolwood_Pacific_Railroad

#6
Jon Radder said:
It's been a few years since I've been there. I don't recall finding any place where you could get a reasonable angle. You managed to find at least one!
Jon, They built a new station at what used to be Toonetown. There's a walkway that goes behind the "go-karts" along the track. The station and walkway weren't open last year. Besides the stations and this one walkway, there really aren't any good places to get pictures of the trains. And the stations are usually crowded, making picture taking tough. Ralph
#7

Hi Ralph:

Those two locos are actually backdated from their orignal factory appearance. If you google the web you will find the original photos of the pre-restored locos. MiceAge.com is a good source of information , also www.burnsland.com . The Disney imagineers did a fantastic job on those locos. One of the staff told me that the wood cabs are actually now fibreglass due to previous wood cab termite problems.

DisneyWorld is a fantastic place to visit. Always had great times there. One year I met a really nice lady there, but we can’t get into that here!

I still wonder how the loco engineers avoid boredom as the train track circle around the Magic Kingdom is not that long and they would be listening to the same recordings of “Goofy” all day long.

I never got tired of watching the trains come into the MainStreet station. As the crowds grew thicker though the station master explained that I then had to leave the station platform and board a train. It was really nice of him to let me stay on the platform for a while. Of course we spoke about toy trains.

Norman

#8

Anyone notice the water pump mounted on the pistion slider? Now thats “old school” !!! Don’t worry about the monorails Ralph, those are the boring bus units Dizzyworld replaced the real monorails with, even if the Imagineering folks say they were modeled on Lear Jets they have never been very photogenic when compared to the “Thunderbirds” cool of the first gen models. Hopefully DizzyWorld will get the newestgeneration monorails we got at Dizzyland, they hark back to that early “Thunderbirds” coolness of the first monorails:

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A definite improvement!

#9

I nearly forgot I had some photos from the German GRR in Epcot. Really, one would think Disney could do much better. The plantings are nice. They are running single locomotives, probably to avoid uncouplings and derailments. Ralph

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#10

I was there in Dec. and it was not very well maintained… I was given the impression and I could be wrong, that each country took care of there own theme stuff, I talked with a young lady from Germany and they come over to the states for a year on a student visa to work the pavilions and do things like sell and keep the train running.

#11

Wow, that red, white and blue monorail looks sharp!

#12
Ray Dunakin said:
Wow, that red, white and blue monorail looks sharp!
Reminds me of a Coke can :) Ralph
#13

I suppose that if uncoupling were the only problem for the German EPCOT garden railway, then twist ties could be used to prevent it. Way back when I used the hook and loop couplers, I always added the extra hooks to each piece of rolling stock. Seems like they were a royal pain to uncouple, but that also meant that the trains stayed coupled.

Ralph, you are probably correct in guessing that there must be other problems, such as derailments. Could also be that those in charge of keeping the display running are not that savvy with putting rolling stock back on the track (especially if they don’t care that much about trains to begin with), so are trying to save themselves headaches. Even one train derailment per day seems like a big problem when you can’t put things back on the track that easily.

I know that LGB and others make a railing ramp. I’m surprized that no one has utilized one of those ramps.

Nice photos.

Yours,
David Meashey

#14

Ralph, Nice post on some fine equipment. Soory it took awhile to respond. Hope your trip went well

#15

One of my regrets from my last trip to WDW was missing Epcot as the GRR display was on my “must see” list. I am now happy I missed it. Would have been a massive let-down. Our local club members do much better with much less.

Can’t say I’ve been less impressed with a Disney attraction since ‘Toon-Town’.

#16

I installed two railing ramps.

I have two. One on the lower part of the layout where many people add their trains to the layout and one ourtside the train barn for me to use and catch a derailed car when it comes from the barn. They work great. Aristocraft made them.