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The new look must be part of the "upgrading" trend. I liked the old format better, it was more, how do you say? Rustic .
vsmith wrote: user="ToadFrog&WhiteLightn"] REI wrote: 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.
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.
Walt Disney World Railroad #1 Walter E. Disney, it's my favorite locomtive. I was able to get into the cab of the #4 Roy O. Disney and ring her bell during the Magic Behind Our Steam Trains Tour, but I wish it would've been the Walter.
The two front wheel pairs are held into the frame with one pannel that has the New Bright logo on it and have two screws on each side. Those two wheel pairs are "dummies". The last wheel pair is the driving pair, it has a small cog in a shaft inside the frame that grinds with the gears, and moves the rest of the drive wheels with the side rods. Its beam holds a gear that grinds with the cog and beside it is the pointy, black thing that hits the metal clip as it turns which makes it do the
Well, the oil burning smoke unit that I installed in it is as close as it gets.
Yeah that's fine. The WDWRR engines burn soybean oil as fuel too. Oh and I'm not a drinker, Toad.
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
The WDW train set engines are actually 2-6-0 moguls. I think the all golden one looks so hidieous.
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