Disney Railroads Discussion Board

Toy Man Television re-released their video with updated (corrected?) narration:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcvR4ekGE-k

Toy Man Television's latest offering:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ODslrIndGU

He's kind of like Lucius Beebe, never lets a good story get in the way of facts...

Nice shots! The time compression was a little off-putting at times.

The problem with FB is it's really difficult to find stuff you've seen in the past. The search feature is lacking IMHO. Plus, the 'privacy' settings prevent wide disemination of pictures that may be interesting to folks outside one's circle of friends. It's harder and harder to find photos of locati...

Theme Park railroads in California are considered amusement rides and as such are inspected by the State (Division of Safely and Health I beleive).

The Santa Cruz, Big Trees, & Pacific Railway (SCBG) company has purchased two CF-7 locomotives and they are in-transit to Watsonville, CA. They will be stored there until the washout on the Santa Cruz Branch is repaired. These CF-7s will join the two already owned by the company in Felton, CA. T...

Bruce R Pier wrote: Is the South Pacific Coast even running again?

The folks in Santa Margarita have called themselves the 'Pacific Coast Railroad' after the railroad that historically operated just south of there.

The 'South Pacific Coast' ran between Oakland (San Francisco via ferry) and Santa Cruz.

Title should have been Walking with Walt. Doh!

Toy Man Television has posted a YouTube video with a nice overview of the Disney railroad story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_djTVwAW2U

Our best guess right now is that while the valve is on dead center, the piston is, say, fully forward. Any steam blowing by the valve would be entering behind the piston, but because of its position fully forward already, the steam behind it does nothing except exhaust out the cylinder cock--creati...