Disneyland Railroad
— — a small steam line around a man's whole idea.
Not only on a wall.
“Walt Disney's railroad, running the perimeter of Disneyland Park in Anaheim since opening day on July 17, 1955. Five narrow-gauge steam locomotives work the loop, each named for an early Santa Fe Railway figure, pulling open cars and an enclosed Lilly Belle parlour. The grand circle tour takes about twenty minutes and stops at four stations along the way. Walt himself, an amateur engineer with a backyard line at home, ran the throttle on opening day. Most of what stays with people is the whistle, and the slow turn past the rivers of America. from the studio
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The Disneyland Railroad has circled the berm of Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California since the park's opening on July 17, 1955. The line runs about 1.7 kilometres at three-foot narrow gauge and serves four stations: Main Street, U.S.A.; New Orleans Square; Mickey's Toontown; and Tomorrowland. The grand circle tour takes roughly 18 to 20 minutes. The railroad was a personal project of Walt Disney, who had built a 1/8-scale backyard line, the Carolwood Pacific, at his Holmby Hills home in 1950 and tested many of the park's ideas there first.
Five steam locomotives operate the line, each named for an early Santa Fe Railway figure: the C. K. Holliday and the E. P. Ripley date to 1955, the Fred Gurley to 1958, the Ernest S. Marsh to 1959, and the Ward Kimball, added in 2005, to honour the Disney animator who first kindled Walt's interest in trains. The C. K. Holliday and E. P. Ripley were built at the Walt Disney Studios machine shop; the later three are rebuilt 19th-century industrial engines. The Lilly Belle, an enclosed parlour car named for Walt's wife Lillian, runs sporadically and seats a small private party.
The railroad is included with Disneyland Park admission and runs throughout the operating day, weather and crowd levels permitting. The full loop can be boarded at any of the four stations; the most photographed stretch passes the Grand Canyon and Primeval World dioramas between Tomorrowland and Main Street, installed in 1958 and 1966. Lines move quickly because the trains are frequent. The boilers run on a biodiesel blend made in part from cooking oil from the park's restaurants, a switch Disneyland completed across the fleet around 2007.