And more recently
Bachmann/ Spectrum
Emma Nevada has been offered by at least 2 different manufacturers over the years.
Hartland:
We're not done here. Ward had an 1881 Baldwin narrow gauge 2-6-0.
The Emma Nevada.
In G, you can buy off the shelf Chloe, both types of rider cars, and the Grizzly Flats station.
Chloe. 1907 Baldwin, had hauled sugar cane in Hawaii.
Look at that backhead, so clean you could eat off it!
Who says steam has to be dirty?
He was in great company...
Ward didn't mind a train, or too.
Coming from the G gauge persuasion, the name "Grizzly Flats " is huge, and caries almost a celebrity status. This was, of course, the name of Ward Kimall's backyard railroad. Many models have been offered in G, most notably Chloe.
Postwar PaulSorry to bring that up about the sweepers, but it impressed me the effort they made to keep everything pristine.
What's to be sorry about?
Ward at work:
The ride comes to life.
Kinda hard to imagine it without the villages!
Don't you wish your backyard looked like this?
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
Sorry to bring that up about the sweepers, but it impressed me the effort they made to keep everything pristine.
Euro Disney has some great Americans !
(4-4-0's)
Like 'me all! Looking through me books, I see the "pan" stack was a feature of engines on the early Carson and Colorado. This was a narrow gauge line built by the same guys behind the Virginia and Truckee. It connected with the V&T at Mound House, Nevada, and ran 300 miles down through the Owens Valley, just east of the Sierras.
They were trying to tap into mining in the area, but the owners later said it was"300 miles too long, or 300 years too soon" .
Not much traffic on the line, and it was sold to Espee. This became the S.P. Narrow gauge.
The " pan" stack was on 2or 3 of the last V&T engines running at the very end of operation in 1950 . 26, 27, and maybe 25.
That Casey Jr. is fantastic ! Love the " Dumbo" movie, and the scenes of that little train. I like the way it takes slack, and jolts that train into motion. When this movie was made, Ward Kimball had already acquired an 1881 Baldwin narrow gauge 2-6-0, and had it running on his property. When designing the train for "Dumbo" , Walt told Kimball " make it like your locomotive, Ward, only cartoon it up a bit " .
Thus, we Have " Casey Jr." .
The Eureka was built in 1993 by Severn Lamb while the three other Eurodisneyland locos were built for the 1992 park opening by H.P. Phillips. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_Railroad_(Paris)
Here's one NOT taken through a fisheye lens.
W.F. Cody:
Cyrus K. Holliday:
and G. Washington:
Not quite what we're accustomed to for coaches though:
Then there's the version of Casey Junior at the park on the Marne:
The first time Michael Eisner visited a Disney Park he called it "the cleanest place on earth" after observing all the sweepers at work.
Thanks for your help ! Shutterfly works easily with the IPad.
I really love that "Eureka" at Paris Disney. If I ever get back out that way again...
You know, it kinda looks like that Eureka and Palisade #4, of Mr. Dan Markoff. Well, at least from the front. The more I look at it, the more I see !
They have borrowed elements from several different locomotives. The flat " pan" stack with the red stripe is from latter day V&T . Then, if you look at the cab, the front corners are rounded. This is an 1860's feature, as is the plaque mounted between the drive wheels. No wonder I like this engine ! It is not a model of any one particular engine, but they have borrowed the best features from several.
And you can do this in model building as well. You can build to taste, or painstakingly research, and try to recreate. Some of the museum models are mind blowing in their accuracy and detail.
Your models are built on research, and it shows. I recognize so many locations, and they "look right" to my eyes. I see the eating areas, and the Disney trash cans. Disneyland employed a lot of people with trash scoops, and a broom, they were constantly sweeping up. An army of street sweepers, it seemed like. There were also vending carts around, with popcorn, but it may have been caramel corn.
Ah! Success! Those are real beauties!
30 tons of happiness!
Edna
R.G.S. Business car. Used by Rocky Mountain Rairoad Club in excursion over the R.G.S. In '49, but they had to agree to repaint it first !
Tri color
no less
Crummy
hack
cabin car
caboose
Tight fit!
R.G.S 41
Burnham,Parry and Williams ( Baldwin) 1881
Shutterfly
Try again another day. Sorry.
now Flickr has a message that there is a problem, and they are trying to fix it. I won't worry about it for today. I really like the styling of the Paris train, and stations. That's an interesting twist !
Thank you for those pictures ! Every country has their own flavor! Tokyo is great, love Paris Disney train. Really cool station, has a French flair. Hong Kong has a very cute styling, I would have expected in Japan.
I wanted to share some pix from the Knott's " rolling museum", if I can get this thing to work.
Thank you ! I am trying to enter my pictures on an edit.
DUH!!!!
everything else was the same.
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen...
Tokyo Disneyland's Western River Railroad.
It's only a 15 minute ride rather than a transportation system like it is at the U.S. parks. I've never tried to link a video before, but here goes:
The Paris version of the Disneyland Railroad does a grand circle tour.
Pretty spectacular station!
The locos are named W.F. Cody, C.K. Holliday, G. Washington and Eureka.
Maybe you can't ride in Shanghai, but you can in Hong Kong!
They have the Walter E. Disney, Roy O. Disney and Frank G. Wells locomotives.
Well, that's strange. It worked twice instead of just posting the code gobbledegook.
For Flikr:
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All those different versions of "Small World". I am so used to the white and gold version in Anaheim, it takes a minute to register. But, , I like them all. The Tokyo version is colorful, and I like it. The Hong Kong version is tasteful. But, Shanghai, no train ? I find that very hard to accept !
I have been trying to post a picture or two, and I really don't understand why it's not working. Maybe it is Flickr, or the IPad mini, maybe I need to go to Shutterfly ? Followed the same steps as before.I am suspecting that the combination of IPad/ Flickr is an uphill battle. There may be other combinations that are easier to use.
Oh well
Postwar Paulif you have a Flickr account, I have pictures in "Train Pictures and Stuff" , and also a group I just created called "Knott's "
Can you post a direct link(s) to your albums?
Postwar PaulLike the pictures of " small world " with colored lighting.
Her's the EuroDisneyland version:
Similar but not an exact replica.
The Tokyo version is almost an exact copy.
Though they have kicked up the colors just a tad in recent years...
In Hong Kong they created a slightly smaller version of the facade.
At WDW the sculpture is indoors due to the hurricane risk.
It's nice and all but it loses a lot not being an outdoor construction.
So where's Small World in Shanghai?
No Small World! It's a crime! No Space Mountain either! What kind of Disney Park is this? And if those omissions aren't enough, THERE'S NO TRAIN EITHER!!!!
I don't get it. ????????
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