Some Disney train ideas

[Electricsteam]

Man V Machine. In Disney Paul Bunyan

Casey Junior

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Just a few disney trains to stir up some ideas for you guys. Not every train has to be uber realistic

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Edited November 9, 2015 by Jim
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[xboxtravis7992]

The Casey Jr. ride at Disneyland would make an interesting narrow gauge prototype:

https://disneyland.disney.go.com/attractions/disneyland/casey-jr-circus-train/

I think it runs on a gas engine: but has been at work since 1955... That's a longer life than most diesel units we like to model.

But if you want a more realistic Disney train, then the steam locomotives at Disneyland and Disney World are iconic, and run on the same 3' gauge track commonly used in the U.S. steam era.

Edited November 9, 2015 by xboxtravis7992

[Railfan9]

Actually 3' is narrow gauge, but yes those locomotives are gorgeous locomotives

[pirzyk]

There is also the train from John Henry, the hammer and drill make it different.

http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/John_Henry

[xboxtravis7992]

There is also the train from John Henry, the hammer and drill make it different.

http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/John_Henry

How's I forget about John Henry? That's an unsung Disney classic based on a legend that originated in the post civil war construction of railroads.

Plus that steam drill from the cartoon is pretty sick looking

[Electricsteam]

Cartoons have much more bizarre train designs since they don't need to follow this thing called logic.

[xboxtravis7992]

Cartoons have much more bizarre train designs since they don't need to follow this thing called logic.

A lot of the old time Disney animators were big train buffs, so they knew very well what was prototypical railroading: making there artistic errors all the more outlandish- they probably did it on purpose!

But nothing matches the oddity of the old illustrations for the Railway Series books with Henry's constantly retracting pony truck :(

[Electricsteam]

A lot of the old time Disney animators were big train buffs, so they knew very well what was prototypical railroading: making there artistic errors all the more outlandish- they probably did it on purpose!

But nothing matches the oddity of the old illustrations for the Railway Series books with Henry's constantly retracting pony truck :(

Take this. http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/locoloco.htm A small archive of the most outlandish trains ever built.

[dr_spock]

Disneyland de Paris

[zephyr1934]

But if you want a more realistic Disney train, then the steam locomotives at Disneyland and Disney World are iconic, and run on the same 3' gauge track commonly used in the U.S. steam era.

Actually, most of those were originally narrow gauge steam locomotives in the wild (search for "Disney" on this page). On an odd tangent, Disney has... or at least used to have very strict grooming rules for their employees in the parks... except for the old timer railroaders who were running the steam engines when I went to the park in the 1990's... they were right proper scruffy and seemed to be enjoying their retirement jobs.