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?
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.
Ward didn’t mind a train, or too.
He was in great company…
Look at that backhead, so clean you could eat off it!
Who says steam has to be dirty?
Chloe. 1907 Baldwin, had hauled sugar cane in Hawaii.
In G, you can buy off the shelf Chloe, both types of rider cars, and the Grizzly Flats station.
We’re not done here. Ward had an 1881 Baldwin narrow gauge 2-6-0.
The Emma Nevada.
Emma Nevada has been offered by at least 2 different manufacturers over the years.
Hartland:
And more recently
Bachmann/ Spectrum
Detail of Emma
We all love to run trains, don’t we ?
When I was young, Model Railroader magazine had ads from “Little Engines” in Lomita, Ca. I used to dream of building a live steamer. I would buy their catalogues and dream of the day. I went to a few live steam meets, but it has always been out of reach financially. Still is !
I guess I’ll just have to enjoy them whenever, and wherever I can !
This is purported to be a photo of the backhead of the Bachmann model.
I can’t speak to it’s accuracy but the rectangular windows in the photo you posted look right.
Where do old ticket booths go?
Apparently they end up at Ward’s house! [(-D]
Everybody knows about Ward and Walt, but they don’t know about coconspirator Ollie Johnston:
Really fine modeler!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollie_Johnston
No Carolwood Pacific if not for Ollie and Ward!
Walt and Ollie:
You know, Ward Kimball must have made some pretty good money working for Disney to afford a collection like that.
And “The Firehouse Five!” I remember seeing them on one of the “Disney’s Wonderful World Of Color” TV shows back in the early 60’s. It was one of the Disneyland showcase programs and the “Firehouse Five” were playing on the “Mark Twain,” complete with some New Orleans vocalists. Makes sense, a “Dixieland/ New Orleans Jazz” concert on a a paddlewheeler.
They were GOOD too! Looked like one hell of a party!
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This is purported to be a photo of the backhead of the Bachmann model.
I can’t speak to it’s accuracy but the rectangular windows in the photo you posted look right.
Everybody knows about Ward and Walt, but they don’t know about coconspirator Ollie Johnston:
Really fine modeler!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollie_Johnston
No Carolwood Pacific if not for Ollie and Ward!
Multi-cylinder steam locomotives made a certain amount of sense in the European view, it wasn’t just the Brits who had them, but also the Germans and the French as well. A multi-cylinder design lessened the weight of moving machinery and made the locomotive easier on the track, there was less pounding and dynamic augment.
The disadvantage though, and remember nothing comes free, was increased maintanence costs, those muti-cylinder locomotives were harder and more time-consuming to work on. However, since labor costs were cheaper in Europe and most railroads on the continent were government-run they didn’t have the profit drive that American railroads had. Certainly they wanted to make money, but it wasn’t quite the concern that American 'roads had.
ALCO pushed some three-cylinder designs here in the US in the post World War One era, but the only ones that really caught on were the Union Pacific’s 9000 Class 4-12-2’s. I’m sure the UP’s shopmen groaned a bit when one of them showed up for servicing. Just about all American 'roads wanted nothing to do with multi-cylinder locomotives, the philosophy being “Get 'em in, get 'em serviced, get 'em out!” A locomotive in the shop wasn’t out making money.
And the British locomotives with inside cylinders? Those were used in areas with tight clearances, very common on British lines, putting the cylinders inside the frame got them out of the way of possible damage.
Before there was a New Orleans Square, there was New Orleans Street and big name jazz acts routinely gave floating concerts from the deck of the Mark Twain.
Dixieland at Disneyland 1963:
Kid Ory and the Young Men from New Orleans:
The Albert McNeil Choir
Al Hirt
Firehouse Five Plus 2
River Bank Seating and Bleacher Stands
Firehouse on a different day:
There was also a bandstand at the water’s edge where the Disneyland Strwhatters played.
Here’s something where if you blinked you missed it:
Yes, that’s a McConestoga wagon!
All those concerts on the Mark Twain, I had no idea.
As I said, looked like one hell of a party!