weston1879 Wrote:
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> Walt Disney and Ward Kimball were railfans!Ward
> Kimball restored EMMA NEVADA.Walt supervised the
> building of LILY BELLE and the Disneyland
> engines.If they were alive today they would slap
> those clucks up the side of the head.Maybe they
> would hire some real railroad people to replace
> them.
Walt and Ward might have been able to get engines repaired or rebuilt, but their idea of paintjobs was utter hookum. The "Jupiter" replica wore the wrong colors for many years simply because someone asked Kimball and he liked red. I'll take phony smokestacks over cartoon colors any day of the week.
As a point of trivia, the first two Disneyland RR 4-4-0's weren't so much proper locomotives as they were very large (5/8) models of CP 173. That's why they have somewhat funny proportions if compared to a proper narrow gauge locomotive like "Eureka."
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/21/2013 02:01AM by James.