WDWRR #4 Roy O. Disney....in G scale

[REI]

This engine which was made by New Bright is a 4-4-0 American, rare to find a 4-4-0 American by New Bright, their engines are usually 2-6-0 moguls or 2-6-2 prairies. I've had it since 2003 and it was called the "Gold Rush Express", a model of a typical Western 4-4-0. I always liked how it strongly resembeled the #4 Roy O. Disney in appearence, the stack is a simulated Hunter & Radley design (same as Roy's), its a 4-4-0 American, and the overall design would make the perfect prototype for the Roy, except maybe for the drive wheel spacing and the drive rod design. I always thought that if it was painted in the correct paint scheme, it would't look like a half-bad representation. A couple of months ago I decided it was time to re-paint and re-letter it. And as part of the project, I rigged a spare smoke unit I had into the smoke stack.

This is how it looked before April 2008:

After:

The Blue 400 series consist (its train)

These are a few photos I took of Roy on my recent trip to Walt Disney World:

And this is the Hartland Locomotive works version which was exclusively made for Roy E. Disney, Walt Disney's nephew and Roy's son. It was given to him on the rededication of the Roy O. Disney engine which took place on June 6, 2002 after it had returned from an extensive overhaul...

 

[Anonymous]

Ok...REI.....go get a CASE of beer cause your going to need it.

Look what Uncle Toadie found you!!!! http://www.burnsland.com/disneyrailroads/index.php?sid=c0017c13128a2ae44a3df7cb46831304

Have Fun!!!!!

Oh yeah here

Disney Goes Biodiesel

July 2, 2007 · Written by Joel

The steam trains that run around Disneyland are now running on biodiesel that is a mix of 2 percent diesel and 98 percent soybean oil, known as B98. Apparently this saves 150,000 gallons of diesel a year, and reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 80 percent. It's also over $0.50 cheaper per gallon for Disney, so it makes economic sense too.

The train carries nearly 10,000 people a day, and Disney are looking into converting their other vehicles to more clean burning fuels.

Don't forget this for your parents

 

http://sorcerersworkshop.org/railroad.shtml

Toad

[REI]

Yeah that's fine. The WDWRR engines burn soybean oil as fuel too. Oh and I'm not a drinker, Toad.

[Anonymous]

Yeah that's fine. The WDWRR engines burn soybean oil as fuel too. Oh and I'm not a drinker, Toad.

So you now have to figure how to make it a oil burner.

Toad

[REI]

Well, the oil burning smoke unit that I installed in it is as close as it gets.

[Cheese]

Very Nice,

I had the pleasure of riding behind Roy in late April. My school's yearly "Fine Arts" Trip went to disney. I went with the Chorus to compete in "Festival Disney". The Drama Department went too, which I am also part of at school, but they did behind the sceanes tours of Disney while the Chorus did Chorus stuff.

A friend and I were going to meet some other friends (Who came with drama and had gone to the Magic Kingdom and hour before the chorus) in Frontierland, so rather than walk we took the train, which was pulled by Roy.

Cheese

[REI]

Thanks! Roy and Walter were the two trains running when I went on May 3. The engine that I really wanted to ride and focus on this trip was the Walter, it's my favorite steam engine in the whole world. The park was overwhealmingly JAM-PACKED with people after I took the tour. So I went later in the evening after taking a brake in the hotel to get as many rides behind Walter as I could get.

[vsmith]

user="ToadFrog&WhiteLightn"]

Yeah that's fine. The WDWRR engines burn soybean oil as fuel too. Oh and I'm not a drinker, Toad.

So you now have to figure how to make it a oil burner.

Toad

Cover in oil, light match

Sorry, I'm so evil at times!

[Anonymous]

user="ToadFrog&WhiteLightn"]

Yeah that's fine. The WDWRR engines burn soybean oil as fuel too. Oh and I'm not a drinker, Toad.

So you now have to figure how to make it a oil burner.

Toad

Cover in oil, light match

Sorry, I'm so evil at times!

[REI]

user="ToadFrog&WhiteLightn"]

Yeah that's fine. The WDWRR engines burn soybean oil as fuel too. Oh and I'm not a drinker, Toad.

So you now have to figure how to make it a oil burner.

Toad

Cover in oil, light match

Sorry, I'm so evil at times!

 

Yeah, like I'm gonna do that.

[Cheese]

Thanks! Roy and Walter were the two trains running when I went on May 3. The engine that I really wanted to ride and focus on this trip was the Walter, it's my favorite steam engine in the whole world. The park was overwhealmingly JAM-PACKED with people after I took the tour. So I went later in the evening after taking a brake in the hotel to get as many rides behind Walter as I could get.

Really?

I was there May 1st. I went with my school's Fine Arts trip for Chorus and the Drama Club, and we went to Magic Kingdom the first day, Epcot the 2nd, Hollywood Studios the 3rd, and Animal Kingdom on the last day, when we left for home afterwards. It was a fun trip.

When the Chorus group got there (The Drama club had been there for a while, as members 16 and older went on the Magic Behind the Sceanes tour or something like that), me and a friend from chorus rode the train to Fronteirland to meet some friends from the Drama club who did not take the tour (I, as well as most people in Chorus, am part of both, but I went under the chorus banner). The engine was Roy O. Disney.

Later in the day we were exhuasted and took the train from Toontown to Mainstreet to see the parade. The engine was Walter E. Disney. The last hour we were there we were so tired that we did nothing but ride the train around and around the park (I counted 4, but I fell asleep on one of the rides so it might have been 5), and those rides were behind Walter E. Disney.

I must say I was disapointed that Lilly Belle was not running. She is my favorite out of all the Disney World locomotives, followed by Walter E. Dinsey. I have considered bashing an LGB mogul into a Lilly Belle and a Bachmann 4-6-0 into Walter, which I may do soon. A gentleman on the Disney Railroads Fansite board has started his version of the Walter with a Bachmann 4-6-0 and I am anxious to see how it turns out.

Cheese

[REI]

Yeah, the reason why Lilly Belle doesn't do passenger duty too often is because it is the "morning show train" and she normally pulls her green 200 series coaches which don't have the safety side pannels on the first three coaches, the last two coaches do. Infact, the engine to pick the tour group to take us to the roundhouse was the Lilly Belle. First it ran a "dead head" around the park and then came back to Main Street station, picked us up, and backed up to the roundhouse at Toon Town station. Lilly Belle sometimes runs passenger duty when another engine is out of service and there is a need for a third engine. It is coupled to the other engine's train set to be able to carry passengers. I did see that guy's kit-bashed 4-6-0. The only thing I think is a little off is the smoke stack. The #4 Roy O. Disney is the most accurate engine I have kit-bashed. I think I used the best prototype I would every find for the Roy. I have a 2-6-0 mogul New Bright engine similar to Lilly Belle that I painted the same as Lilly, the only thing is that I didn't change the lettering on it. My #1 Walter E. Disney is a Scientific Toys that is sold at the park. I like to call my Walter a 2-6-0 mogul version of the engine that I heavly kit-bashed as much as I possibly could to ressemble the real Walter using the Scintific Toys prototype. I also changed the sound system it came with because it burned-out and it didn't sound very well anyways. I installed a sound system more familiar to the real Walter's and I can also control the whistle better than with the other one, and it is LOUD!