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I am glad you found us all those years ago, Sam, because you quickly became an important member of our community. Thank you for all your contributions over the years!

And that is a nice tease, Michael. I’m curious!

See this post about the Lilly Belle, on which the generator at the rear of the tender was replaced by batteries. My guess is that it is the same for the Broggie, and that the batteries take up more room than the generator. Perhaps someone with more knowledge can let us know for certain.

My guess is that it has to do with the overall construction of the Magic Kingdom. The Utilidors underneath the park are at ground level, and most of the park is on the second level. And then Main Street Station is another level above the "park" level, while the northeast corner of the Magi...

Nice article! Thanks for sharing it!

Here is a news article about the track replacement. Not much that hasn’t already been said here, but I thought it might be worth sharing.

https://www.ocregister.com/2024/10/11/d ... ittle-tlc/

Locoboy5150 wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 7:33 pm let that be a warning for anyone considering going into the engineering field.

Amen to that!

Doing a little sleuthing turned up an address of 1656 S. Harbor Blvd. It looks like according to the 1975 phone book, it was called Golf World. In a 1988 article in the Los Angeles Times, its name had changed to Golf N' Stuff. Good work! I tried searching with the address but never could get anythi...

Here's a video of the miniature golf course at the Disneyland Hotel from back in the day : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMMUUn4qfrU For the record, the miniature golf course in the video was at the Disneyland Hotel, while the miniature golf course that cinderbike asked about was a separate one o...

CP173 wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 1:31 pm Steve is (as always) correct

Definitely not always!

I can't help with the first question, but for the second one, that is a high-voltage power line easement that runs all along the yellow dashed line. Occasionally, some very low structures are built under those lines, but usually it is just vacant land. Whatever it was that was there in your first ph...