Disney Railroads Discussion Board

You're welcome! After so many years of being a roller coaster enthusiast, I have learned to be EXTREMELY leery whenever a park has been "Flagged." Us coaster enthusiasts have been through the ringer all too often, courtesy of Six Flags. (Though to be perfectly honest, Cedar Fair does have ...

Ah, OK. I had no idea that it was not originally a 2-4-4T. Thanks for the explanation.

Thank you for the update. I have not seen that locomotive in person in many years. Traces of the "Ward Kimball" lettering on the cab were still faintly visible when I last saw and photographed it at Cedar Point. I hope that it will be returned to its original 2-4-4T wheel arrangement durin...

It looks like the owner took an older style 4-4-0, "modernized" it, and then painted it like DRR 2. It is also way out of my price range but it is in Stockton which is not too far from me, unlike almost every steam locomotive that comes up for sale.

The train talk in the video starts at 18:48. The talk about the Knott's Crown locomotive starts right afterwards. Don't blame me Tractor - I did not utter a word as per your instructions to me at Frontier Village a few weeks ago! Someone else spilled the beans on camera! :lol: I am not happy that th...

Changing the name of the GT & C RR is an absolutely perfect example of a total no-no for us engineers - a solution to a problem that does not exist. To think that people actually get paid to think up this stuff! :roll: They can change the name all that they want on the website in my book though....

Thanks for the details Steve!

For some reason I got a little chuckle out of the fact that the locomotive inspector's name was "Leakey."

Ugh...I cannot say that I am surprised. Has Knott's Berry Farm been "Flagged" like so many other parks in the Six Flags chain? Getting rid of a steam locomotive is possibly a sign of things to come. I know that Camp Snoopy is going through a lot of construction currently but I did not know...

Then again, the aesthetics they used for their uneasy combination of Toon Town and Main Street might have resulted in a hideous abomination on rails. Maybe we were inadvertently spared that nightmare? Ah, that is an excellent point that I had not thought of! Any time that I can be spared from tossi...

I was out the past two and a half weeks in Shanghai and Taipei and I just got home late last night. This video is a fantastic "welcome home" gift - thank you!

As a side note, I will say it again. Shanghai Disneyland seriously needs a train ride!