OK, I’m back from Orlando.
The better half actually let me do some shopping, with her in the store encouraging me to spend more on trains!
Recent purchases include a Proto CSX SD50, Walthers Budd Dome in Amtrak Phase 4 livery & a few box cars from Athearn, Walthers RTR.
Has anyone checked out the live steam at the Magic Kingdom?
It is actually live steam, the locomotives that they have were brought from Mexico & run on diesel fuel.
Origionally coal but the EPA put the brakes on coal fed steam around Orlando.
It is not necessarily common knowledge that both Walt and Ward Kimball, as well as a number of others on the original animation staff, were big fans of trains. The last time I was at Disney World was about six and a half years ago.
While we were there I found myself wandering through one of the “10 million” gift shops on the property, and ended up in the book section of the store. There I stumbled onto a book titled Walt Disney’s Railroad Story, and bought it.
It has been stashed away until now, still bearing it’s original shrink wrap and $59.95 price tag. I just opened it and noticed that the book was done by Pentrex. The truth is that it was the trains that gave rise to the theme park, not the other way around.[swg]