Walt disney railroad story
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#Walt disney railroad story full size#
The scale on the Disney trains is close enough to full size to fool the eyes. Many modern theme parks have a train that visitors can ride that looks like a steam train, but only in looks and the scale is too small. This includes the history of each of the 4 trains that are 5/8 scale on a 3 foot track. The second half of the book deals with the acquisition and building of the Disneyland railroad.
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It has very details pictures of his backyard layout. The first half of the book is mostly about Walt's experiences and brushes with trains, including his backyard set.
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It also has sections on his trains and Ward Kimball's trains. It has a Forward by steam train buff and legendary Disney animator Ollie Johnston. The book has a rare Preface by Lillian Disney herself, wife of Walt Disney.
#Walt disney railroad story update#
Walt Disney once said that he preferred designing Disneyland to making movies, because his yard train set showed him you could constantly change and update things, but he could not do that with a film. I read an article recently that the train at Disneyland has more guests that any other attraction, a full 70% of visitors take a ride on it. Walt always knew he wanted a live steam train for his Disneyland park, and he turned to experts and live steam buffs like Roger Broggie, animator Ward Kimball, and other train enthusiasts on his staff to feed his personal fascination with trains and guide his ideas. Walt Disney's experience with that train and his life long love for steam trains helped drive him to build Disneyland and have a train as the key element. He built a barn for operating and maintaining the train, and you can visit the relocated barn at in Los Angeles, California at Griffith Park near the LA Steamers train sets, where it is on loan to the City, and maintained by the Carolwood Pacific Historical Society. The 1/8 scale train in Walt's yard had a 1/2 mile of track, 46 foot trestle bridge built, and in order to avoid disturbing his wife's flower bed, he built a 96 foot long tunnel under it. Walt named his train set the "Carolwood Pacific", giving rides to friends, employees and celebrities. The book and has extensive coverage of Walt's backyard train at home. Roger Broggie later headed up the program to buy and build steam trains for Disneyland. He had the expert assistance of a Walt Disney Studios machinist, Roger E. This train was big enough for adults to ride on and Walt was able to de-stress by building it by hand and tinkering with it whenever he could. Prior to his design of Disneyland, Walt decided to build a garden scale train set at home, in his backyard. One of Walt's first jobs was selling candy on a train as a kid, and he continued to love the romance of live steam trains the rest of his life. The book shows construction photos, pictures of all the trains, behind the scenes pictures from the rail shop, interiors of the private Lilly Bell car, and much more. The Disney railroads at all the parks have in my opinion the most beautiful, well maintained trains in the country and the operators and maintenance staff are rightly proud of them. The book has hundreds of photos that I have never seen in any other book on Walt Disney or Disneyland. With the help of Walt Disney's family and friends, the author chronicles Walt Disney's life long love of steam trains. It was reprinted in 1998 and again in 2006. This is the massive 437 page "Walt Disney's Railroad Story" by Michael Broggie, weighs about 6 pounds, originally published in 1997.