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00:00:24Like much of the rest of Disneyland, the railroad was built slightly smaller than full size.
00:00:29The train and its tracks are about 5-8 scale. The trains travel approximately 6,700 feet in a clockwise loop around the park with stops at three stations along the line.
00:00:38Like the tracks themselves, all four stations are perched on the tall berm that surrounds the park.
00:00:43Today, each round trip begins from the Main Street Station. It takes about 25 minutes making the train tour Disneyland's longest ride.
00:00:51The Main Street Station designed by Bill Martin can hold 300 guests and spreading 270 feet from end to end above Disneyland entrance.
00:01:00Its interior displays have included old photographs as well as a miniature engine and caboose from the Carolwood Pacific.
00:01:06The diminutive Frontierland Station, renamed New Orleans Square Frontierland Station in 1966, is based on a station design used in the Disney film So Dear to My Heart.
00:01:16Attentive fans can watch the real working water tower just outside this station and listen for quiet, telegraph-coded passages from Walt Disney's opening day speech.
00:01:26Fantasyland got a new Videopolis Station in 1985, its location a little further westward from where the earlier Fantasyland Station had been.
00:01:35In 1993, the Videopolis Station became Mickey's Tomb Town Depot.
00:01:39By now, the number of riders on the well-traveled Disneyland trains tops 300 million,
00:01:44and the 50-plus years of train trips total over 5 million miles, equaling 10 round-trip flights to the moon.
00:01:51What began as Walt Disney's youthful passion and backyard hobby continues to thrive as one of the most venerated and visited attractions in Disneyland history.
00:02:00Hello, folks. Welcome aboard the Disneyland Railroad.
00:02:05We're now on a grand circle tour of the Magic Kingdom, stopping at New Orleans Square, Mickey's Tomb Town, and Tomorrowland,
00:02:14followed by a visit to the Grand Canyon and a spectacular primeval world.
00:02:20Please stay seated during the trip with your hands and arms inside the train.
00:02:25And no smoking, please. The smoking lamp is out.
00:02:28You're riding aboard one of four genuine steam-powered trains of the Disneyland Railroad.
00:02:34The forerunners of these trains were the celebrated pioneers of the rail that spanned our growing country during the last century.
00:02:42Since we've been running this line, the Disneyland trains have covered enough track to circle the globe more than 150 times.
00:02:51Now, don't be surprised if you hear the roar of a lion or the trumpet of a wild elephant, because we're entering the jungles of Adventureland, the world's most exotic region.
00:03:03Keep a sharp eye out here.
00:03:05This is one part of the trip where we don't want unexpected passengers.
00:03:09We're now arriving at our first stop, New Orleans Square, serving Frontierland, New Orleans Square, and Critter Country.
00:03:19If you'll be leaving us here, please wait until the train comes to a complete stop, then step carefully from the train.
00:03:27This is New Orleans Square.
00:03:29To those who have just joined us, welcome aboard the Disneyland Railroad.
00:03:35Please stay seated while the train is moving with your hands on inside of you.
00:03:41We're now entering Splash Mountain, where every day is one of those zippity-doo-dah days.
00:03:48If you look real hard, you might just find your lap and place.
00:03:53This is Critter Country, where a talented troupe of stage-struck bears star in the Country Bear Vacation Hoedown.
00:04:00Why, there across the river is proof a settler's cabin is on fire.
00:04:05Hello, everyone.
00:04:06Thanks for joining us on the Disneyland Railroad.
00:04:10Please keep your hands and arms inside the train and remain seated during our trip.
00:04:15And no smoking, please, is happy salute to children everywhere.
00:04:20It's a small world.
00:04:23This musical cruise premiered at the New York World's Fair in 1964 and has been making people smile ever since.
00:04:31We're crossing into Tomorrowland, a land where everything is on the move.
00:04:37If you look overhead, you might catch a glimpse of a Mark V monorail.
00:04:41When Disneyland introduced the monorail back in 1959, it was the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere.
00:04:50Today's monorail trains glide along the two-and-a-half-mile route, traveling to the Disneyland Hotel, and back evening below is the Autopia, where drivers of all ages can take to the road.
00:05:02And no license is required.
00:05:05Is Tomorrowland, to those just joining us, welcome aboard.
00:05:09The next leg of our journey will take us right along the rim of the spectacular Grand Canyon.
00:05:15It's a long drop to the canyon floor, so please...
00:05:18Boarding one of the four colorful trains in Disneyland is not just hopping aboard a train.
00:05:23It's actually stepping into a pioneer of early railroad history.
00:05:28It's experiencing a steam train ride of the past at a time when the West was just really beginning to grow.
00:05:36After more than three decades of service, the trains still have a brand new look.
00:05:41Daily maintenance includes washing, paint touch-up, lubrication, and hand polishing of all fittings.
00:05:48Once a year, each engine is dismantled for a thorough overhaul.
00:05:53Both locomotives and rolling stock are completely repainted annually.
00:05:58The Disneyland Railroad is a complete line with automatic block signals all along the route, crossing gates, warning lights and bells,
00:06:07and a rectangular roundhouse where each train is carefully washed and polished every night.
00:06:13With so much use, the trains must be kept always in top condition.
00:06:25The maintenance team, headed since 1961 by Ken Kohler, does just that, servicing each train thoroughly on a rotating basis.
00:06:34The trains gleaming appearances and smooth performances are quite a matter of pride.
00:06:44The Fred Gurley that you're looking at right now is actually an 1894 Baldwin locomotive.
00:07:03We bought her, brought her in here and refurbished her and put her in service in 1958 along with the opening of the Grand Canyon diorama.
00:07:16She came to us actually off from a plantation.
00:07:19We're used to haul sugar cane in the south.
00:07:25Great little locomotive.
00:07:27It's a solid frame.
00:07:28The tender's on board for the fuel and the water.
00:07:33It's a number two diesel oil and it'll run a good eight-hour shift, ten-hour shift without refueling.
00:07:42This locomotive, the E.P. Ripley, is locomotive number two.
00:07:46This is one of the two locomotives that were built at Walt Disney Studio prior to park opening in 1955.
00:07:56It was a situation where Walt had asked if locomotives could be built at the studio.
00:08:04And the man in charge of the machine shop, a man by the name of Roger Brogy, he said definitely.
00:08:11So they made their own castings, did their own machine work.
00:08:14And that's where number one and number two locomotives came from.
00:08:20They are a replica of the locomotives around the turn of the century, what they were designed after.
00:08:26It also is a diesel-burning locomotive.
00:08:31The difference being it has a tender that it tows along instead of being on the same frame.
00:08:37The difference between number one and number two locomotive is basically in the stack.
00:08:42The number one locomotive is what you call a diamond stack.
00:08:46And of course the color being different.
00:08:49The number four locomotive here is the Ernest S. Marsh.
00:08:56It's a 1925 Baldwin locomotive that we bought out of a quarry.
00:09:02At that time she came to us with a saddle back over the boiler that carried us water and fuel.
00:09:10We took it to the studio and refurbished it, took the saddle off, new boiler on,
00:09:16through the running gears, built a tender for her, and put her in service in 1961.
00:09:21She also carries a diamond stack much smaller than the one on number one.
00:09:27Yes, there's four engines and four different coach setups.
00:09:31We have what we call the holiday green, holiday blue, holiday red.
00:09:38All of those are identified by the striped canvas tops that they have on.
00:09:44And then we have the excursion train which actually represents an old excursion type train used in the south many years ago.
00:09:56Walt felt that the enclosed cars with their framed windows offered too limited a view of his Grand Canyon diorama and primeval world attraction.
00:10:05So they were, thereafter, used only occasionally in inclement weather.
00:10:12Originally named the Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad, the line's first two locomotives were named for two important figures in the railway's history.
00:10:22C.K. Holiday and E.P. Ripley respectively, the founder and early president of the Santa Fe Railroad.
00:10:30Even though the physical fabrication of the wheels, frames, boilers, and other fixtures was done by outside contractors,
00:10:39every detail was meticulously designed and rendered at the Disney Studio.
00:10:44Final assembly of all components was done at Disneyland.
00:10:48Authentic in every detail, from a brass guide on the cow catcher to a shiny brass whistle atop the steam domes,
00:11:03the 15-ton engines are among the most colorful ever run on a regular schedule.
00:11:08In their only bow to modern railroading, the engines gave up wood-burning fireboxes in favor of oil flames.
00:11:19But the plumes of white vapor still provide an explosive thrill as firemen perform the ancient ritual of blowing down to clear the boiler.
00:11:29Old timers and children alike watch in awe as the lustrous engines with flashing red wheels come rolling into the old-fashioned brick station on Main Street.
00:11:50Why are you looking at this?
00:12:01A long way down.
00:12:08On the spur track adjacent to the station
00:12:36is an authentic hand car.
00:12:38That was a gift to Walt from the Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company
00:12:41of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
00:12:43The benches located throughout the lobby in the waiting area
00:12:46are reminiscent of a bygone era.
00:12:49On Disneyland steam trains, adults relive memories of train rides of the past while freeway-oriented
00:13:01youngsters experience travel as it was in a bygone era.
00:13:10Frontierland Station reveals a composite of many early frontier train stations.
00:13:16The sound of an old telegraph key clicking out messages can be heard through the open window
00:13:28of the station.
00:13:29To the left of the passenger depot is a train order signal.
00:13:39This type of signal is used to tell the engineer if there is a change in the train's orders,
00:13:45or if there are any passengers or mail to be picked up at the station.
00:13:49This signal was given to the park in 1962 by William White, board chairman of the Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation.
00:13:58To the right of the freight station is the water tower, where the steam trains stop every few hours to take on water.
00:14:09One car from the old train returned to the rails in 1976, but in a much grander style than before.
00:14:20Under the direction of Bill Cottrell, the outmoded observation car became the sumptuous Lily Bell,
00:14:27bicentennial special and presidential car of the Disneyland Railroad.
00:14:31Often seen, but rarely experienced, the Lily Bell seats some 16 guests comfortably on chairs and settee
00:14:39upholstered in burgundy crushed velvet. Live palms, silk roses, brass fixtures, stained glass skylights,
00:14:47and ornate parquet woodwork ornament the car, which, though in service daily, is reserved for pre-arranged VIPs.
00:14:58On Disneyland's opening day, Walt Disney himself was at the throttle, along with California Governor Goodwin Knight
00:15:06and Fred Gurley, president of the Santa Fe Railroad.
00:15:23The Disneyland trains are the dreams and reflections of Walt Disney's love for trains,
00:15:29an interest that dates from his days as a news butcher on the Santa Fe, between Kansas City and Jefferson City, Missouri.
00:15:38Sometimes the trains do break down and have to be evacuated. Looks like some work being done on train 501,
00:15:44and there seems to be the problem. A new battery ready to go.
00:15:49Track to the roundhouse. Inside the Disneyland Railroad roundhouse.
00:16:12Refueling the E.P. Ripley.
00:16:13Yeah, I've been up here three times before.
00:16:24This is my first time up here.
00:16:28Well, feel free to take all the pictures you want to take.
00:16:39It's a genuine steam engine. The only thing we do not do is shovel coal.
00:16:52We use a biodiesel for our fuel, our cooking oils we have in the park.
00:16:57So, send them out, get them clean, they bring them back to us, we burn them up.
00:17:01Right now, I'm adding some water to the boiler, a little water valve right here if you want.
00:17:12I also open up the steam valve, because right now we're sitting here at 150 pounds of pressure,
00:17:18and you can't just take the lid off before water ends.
00:17:22So, we're using the steam to help us inject the water into the boiler.
00:17:31I'm going to go, so I'm going to turn the fire up a little.
00:17:39If you watch the hole down there, it's a bit brighter.
00:17:42It takes two people to operate the train.
00:17:52You have a firer, myself right now, and an engineer, which is John.
00:17:58He drives the train.
00:18:00I'm the one that gives him the 150 pounds of pressure, so he has the pressure to drive.
00:18:05So, we're using the engine number one.
00:18:23We're sitting on engine number one, engines one and two were built by the Walt Disney
00:18:35Company specifically for Disneyland.
00:18:37The other three locomotives we have are all Baldwin's, Baldwin Locomotive Company.
00:18:44The oldest one going back to 1894.
00:18:48And that's the Fred Gurley?
00:18:49Uh huh.
00:18:50Arguably the sweetest one we've got.
00:18:57I second that.
00:19:00We're going to put this one down into a steam.
00:19:11I'm going to turn my fire back down, we're going to use the steam so my pressure doesn't
00:19:18get wild.
00:19:19What are you going to do?
00:19:21All this one's going to go.
00:19:22I'm going to be evil.
00:19:23You got caught up.
00:19:24You got caught up.
00:19:26I'm going to be evil.
00:19:28You got caught up.
00:19:29You got caught up.
00:19:30I'm going to have caught up.
00:19:31I'm going to need a chill.
00:19:32So anyway.
00:19:36When we're going to see the steam..
00:19:37...
00:19:38...
00:19:39That noise that you hear right now, that unit right outside the window is a steam-driven
00:20:07air compressor. We need compressed air for our brakes with this K2-4 and just now that the compressor kicked in giving us some compressor.
00:20:17That is the device that made Mr. Westinghouse's millions.
00:20:23Oh yeah.
00:20:29John's gonna take a break and Norm's gonna come over here.
00:20:33How's it going? Fine.
00:20:35Oh, I'll just go. Mike didn't come around, did he?
00:20:47Almost our whole group are all engineers, although we have a few that are just firers.
00:20:52But the only reason they haven't made engineers is because they haven't been around long enough to be trained.
00:20:57So what we do, we have the three of us who are assigned to this train, we just rotate around.
00:21:03Every time we come by here, next time around I'll get off, you'll move over here and John will get back and sit over there.
00:21:09It just makes it a little bit more interesting for everybody, you're not doing the same thing all day long.
00:21:13Yeah.
00:21:15So to get the power going, you have to use foam.
00:21:17No, we actually have a, we use a, some, what they call it waste material, but it's old cloth that's soaked in that easel fuel.
00:21:27And we take one of those, light it with a lighter, throw it in there, and then turn the fuel on, and away we go.
00:21:36Very easy to re-light the fire.
00:21:38Yeah.
00:21:39Like in the, well, these things here are safety lights, they're block lights.
00:21:48Yeah.
00:21:49Our track is divided into ten blocks.
00:21:51You can only have one piece of equipment in any given block.
00:21:55So, right now we have a green light, so we know there's nobody ahead of us in the next block.
00:22:00Right.
00:22:01If we get a yellow light, it'll happen for two reasons.
00:22:04One is we're coming into a station, which means we got to stop at the station.
00:22:08Mm-hmm.
00:22:09Or the other one, if we're out on the rail somewhere, and all of a sudden we're too close to the train in front of us.
00:22:14Mm-hmm.
00:22:15So we get a yellow light, which means we continue in the block we're in, but we can't enter the next block.
00:22:21If we accidentally do, we get a red light, and everybody comes to a stop, and Mickey gets a little upset.
00:22:29Yeah.
00:22:34He just stays right, so that we don't even want to crash.
00:22:38On stage laborers have been on stage in GTXON, right?
00:22:44Where are we going?
00:22:47That we need to go.
00:22:50Just stand behind me.
00:22:52Yeaah..
00:22:56I don't know why, dude.
00:22:58I don't know why, dude.
00:24:31This is how I apply the brakes.
00:24:34That's how I release the brakes.
00:24:36It's not like in a car when you step on the brake, you take, you put off the pedal, they release automatically.
00:24:41On a train that doesn't have to get, you have to manually release the brakes.
00:24:47Okay.
00:24:53The pedometers up there, we're going, what, 9 feet per second?
00:24:57Oh, it's in feet per second, not in miles per hour.
00:25:01That's where they store the fantastic foam stem.
00:25:20It's clear that we can watch it here.
00:25:27Yellow light.
00:25:27So it, you have to look back, you have to take, you have to take the brake.
00:25:43And there you go, though.
00:26:13We just stepped up, we had a yellow light, and I slowed down, now we've got a green, we can go, right up here you'll see a marker, and that would have been the end of its own.
00:26:28Hello, green light.
00:26:43See, right there on the ground, there's a marker that says number five on it.
00:26:54Had we not gotten green light, I would have had to stop right here, we would not have gone past that marker.
00:27:00Yeah.
00:27:01You can see it right out of here.
00:27:07And now we have a yellow light again, and that's because this is the whole block all the way into Town Station.
00:27:24We're going in as a couple of them.
00:27:39All right, I'm just flying the braces.
00:27:41We're getting here.
00:27:42We're going in.
00:27:43We're going in as a couple of them.
00:27:48First, I'm coming up with a yellow light.
00:27:51All right.
00:27:56We're going in as a Gegenest.
00:28:00I'm coming up with a yellow light.
00:28:03And here we go.
00:28:04And here we go.
00:28:06And here we go.
00:28:08That time we finally came into the station a little slow, I'd fly it a little too much.
00:28:37Usually don't like to come in that slow.
00:28:41These little flags you see on the ground out here, those are for us to line up the train properly so that the wheelchair ramp on the very last car lines up.
00:28:52Depending as to which locomotive we have with which color cars, depends on which number we stop at.
00:29:00And if you've ever been on the train and all of a sudden you're in the station and the conductor comes on and says,
00:29:06I'm going to move the train forward a little bit, move it backward, please don't stand up.
00:29:10That's because we didn't stop at the right flag.
00:29:14Okay.
00:29:30Any questions?
00:29:32What year was this train made?
00:29:36I'm sorry?
00:29:37What year was this train made?
00:29:381955 was when it went into service.
00:29:41It was started built in 1953-54.
00:29:44Wow.
00:29:45A little before your time.
00:29:47Yeah.
00:29:48Yeah.
00:29:49This engine looks really good after it's been in rehab.
00:29:50Yeah.
00:29:51It got rehabbed two years ago now.
00:29:52And it's working wonderful.
00:29:53I kind of miss the old chugging sound that it made before it was on rehab.
00:29:56They do change when they get thoroughly overhauled like that.
00:29:57Yeah.
00:29:58Yeah.
00:29:59Well, number two locomotives should be back next month.
00:30:00Oh, yeah.
00:30:01It's on the road trip.
00:30:02Yeah.
00:30:03Yeah.
00:30:04Yeah.
00:30:05Yeah.
00:30:06Yeah.
00:30:07Yeah.
00:30:08Yeah.
00:30:09Yeah.
00:30:10Yeah.
00:30:11Yeah.
00:30:12Yeah.
00:30:13Yeah.
00:30:14Yeah.
00:30:15Yeah.
00:30:16Yeah.
00:30:17Yeah.
00:30:18Yeah.
00:30:19Yeah.
00:30:20Yeah.
00:30:21Yeah.
00:30:22Yeah.
00:30:23Yeah.
00:30:24Yeah.
00:30:25month. It went over somewhere. It did not get rehab, but it did a lot of work on it, so it'll be back next month.
00:30:55I'm suggesting the fire, that big brass bar, that's the fuel. This other valve, he's turning up there, it's what's called an atomizer. Along with the fuel, we actually inject steam into the boiler to break the particles up so we don't smoke as we're going down the track, so it's an adjustment.
00:31:25It's a balancing act to do between those two levels.
00:31:28It boils away about 65 gallons of water every time we boil.
00:31:30The water is like.
00:31:32It boils away about 65 gallons of water every time we boil.
00:31:36It boils away about 65 gallons of water every time we boil.
00:31:44They boil away about 65 gallons of water every time we go around the track.
00:31:5965 gallons on each trip around the park.
00:32:05You're sitting on it.
00:32:08That whole tender year back there, you can see the front part of it,
00:32:12the one closest to you, is fuel, and everything back there is water.
00:32:17Carry a little over 400 gallons.
00:32:19Oh, so every four trips you do have to fill up?
00:32:23We actually, because the water tower is broken and we have to get our water out of the hose,
00:32:27and it's rather slow, we get water every two trips.
00:32:32Oh, yeah.
00:32:33When the water tower is working, we only get water every two hours.
00:32:37Oh, no.
00:32:42And if you haven't seen it at the next spot where we blow the whistle and all of that,
00:32:55if you look in that direction over there, that's the roundhouse where we park the trains at night.
00:33:00The trains park downstairs, the monorails upstairs.
00:33:04All right.
00:33:05I think Ed's setting up.
00:33:06Oh, no.
00:33:07Oh.
00:33:08Oh, no.
00:33:09Oh.
00:33:10Oh, no.
00:33:11Oh, no.
00:33:12Oh.
00:33:13Oh, no.
00:33:14Oh, no.
00:33:15Oh, no.
00:33:16Oh, no.
00:33:19Oh, no.
00:33:21Oh.
00:33:22All right.
00:34:52We're back with that switch and we back the whole train into the building.
00:34:56Yeah, back it out.
00:34:57And right here is the switch for the monorail, if you've never noticed.
00:35:00That whole bar slides over.
00:35:03We switch the monorail.
00:35:22We switch the monorail.
00:35:52We switch the monorail.
00:36:22We switch the monorail.
00:36:24We switch the monorail.
00:36:26We switch the monorail.
00:36:27That was a little bitter.
00:36:29We switch the monorail.
00:36:30We switch the monorail.
00:36:34We switch the monorail.
00:36:39Before we had those sight glasses to where we could see how much water was in there, the
00:36:45locals had these valves and there might be like four or five of them going up this way.
00:36:49You open up the top one, you see steam.
00:36:51You open up the bottom one, you see water.
00:36:56So you know that the water level was somewhere in between these.
00:37:00Yeah.
00:37:01And what you actually do if you had like five of them here, you start at the top one and
00:37:05work your way down to see where the water level was.
00:37:07Water is the most important thing in a steam engine.
00:37:14If you run out of water, it gets to be very dangerous.
00:37:17If anything else, if you run out of fuel or steam, the worst is going to happen, you're
00:37:22not going to go anywhere.
00:37:23You're going to slow down.
00:37:24But it's not dangerous.
00:37:25Whereas if you run out of water, it gets very dangerous.
00:37:28Yeah.
00:37:29So one of the safety devices we have on here is this little sensor right there.
00:37:35If the water level gets too low, the sensor will set off an alarm like that.
00:37:44And once we hear that alarm, we have 30 seconds to bring the water level where it's supposed
00:37:49to be.
00:37:50If we don't, it'll hit a switch and turn the fuel off.
00:37:53Yeah.
00:37:54So that will turn the fire off, which means we're not going to be building anymore.
00:37:59Now you know just about as much about these things that we do.
00:38:16This gauge right here is for the air compressor that I was talking about earlier.
00:38:21Yeah.
00:38:22One needle shows you how much air I have available to use.
00:38:25The other one shows how much I have actually applied.
00:38:28I put more air.
00:38:29I'll use the brakes for some more.
00:38:31See?
00:38:32Flash was up.
00:38:33If I release the brakes...
00:38:35These valves over here are just the same thing that he has over there.
00:38:42Yeah.
00:38:43Water can be controlled from both sides of the locomotive.
00:38:48Everything else is separate.
00:38:49In other words, I can't control the fire and he can't control the speed or the brakes.
00:38:54But water is the one thing we can both control.
00:39:11And then the train horn, it's just air that goes in, right?
00:39:15Not steam?
00:39:16It's steam.
00:39:17Oh, it's steam.
00:39:18It's a steam whistle.
00:39:19Oh, right.
00:39:20If you were here during the time that the trains were not working and we had a big exhibit
00:39:27at New Orleans Square and we had a cutaway boiler there and it was hooked to air and it
00:39:32had a regular whistle on it, but it didn't sound anything like the train does.
00:39:37Because it was going off of air, not steam.
00:39:40Same thing at Fullerton Railroad days.
00:39:41The same thing.
00:39:42Exactly.
00:39:43Whistle.
00:39:44Whistle.
00:39:45Whistle.
00:39:46Whistle.
00:39:47Train whistles have different number of chimes.
00:39:52Well, like one to six chimes on a whistle.
00:39:56Yeah.
00:39:57So.
00:39:58Right now, all this noise keeps coming out.
00:40:06I have what's called a drain soles.
00:40:09I'll just close it.
00:40:11The cylinders themselves, where the piston is, they have a drain in the bottom of it.
00:40:21If we sit in the station too long, which we didn't here, I was just trying to give you
00:40:25an example.
00:40:26If we sit in the station too long, the steam can turn back into water.
00:40:31But you can't compress water so you would damage the engine if you didn't open the drains
00:40:38to let the water drain out.
00:40:40And that's what all that skin was.
00:40:41I had to drain.
00:40:42I had to drain.
00:40:45Okay.
00:40:55So, we're just about
00:41:25back. Any questions? I don't think so.
00:41:55Good afternoon.
00:42:01Good afternoon.
00:42:11Good afternoon.
00:42:33Greg's released opening up the throttle lever. It's opening a throttle valve inside the steam
00:42:40dome, administering steam in front of the boiler itself, and then turning the steam
00:42:45dome into the two cylinders, which are the actual engines outside the front end of the
00:42:51locomotive. And it's that steam that's driving instead of a piston in each cylinder back
00:42:56and forth, having as the motion that we need to drive the wheels.
00:43:14By the way, this is Jim. I'm Curtis. Oh, hi Bill and Robbie. Good to meet you.
00:43:18Gentlemen, welcome aboard. I'm hoping to work here one day.
00:43:26I just think we said that a few short years ago ourselves.
00:43:30And here we are.
00:43:36They say that this is the newest engine built in the 50s.
00:43:40That's correct.
00:43:42Yeah.
00:43:43They got others from the 1800s. One of them is from the 1800s.
00:43:46It's amazing that they're staying running.
00:43:50Well, we're doing a lot of rehab on there. This is what we built last year.
00:43:54We're kind of at the beginning of last year.
00:43:58Yeah.
00:44:00We're actually two of the guys that are mechanics, too.
00:44:03We don't just...
00:44:04Oh, wow.
00:44:05Oh, wow.
00:44:06We work on it, too.
00:44:08We're really square.
00:44:28We're really square.
00:44:30We're really square.
00:44:31Wow!
00:44:32Oh.
00:44:33Yeah.
00:44:34Yeah.
00:44:35It's all.
00:44:36Oh.
00:44:37Oh.
00:44:38Oh.
00:44:39Yeah.
00:44:40Oh.
00:44:41Oh.
00:44:42Oh.
00:44:44Oh.
00:44:45Oh.
00:44:46Oh.
00:44:47Oh.
00:44:48Oh.
00:44:49Oh.
00:44:50Oh.
00:44:51Oh.
00:44:52Oh.
00:44:57Oh.
00:44:58Oh.
00:44:59Got a series of marketplace out here on your right that indicate where a particular locomotive pulling a specific set of cars, where we stop in construction, proper alignment for something, take care now, something that we do here in New Orleans Square, we just blow down the boiler at least once in an hour, or in case we need to take water, helps us to spot the tender cars.
00:45:29We have a properly line for the water, as well as an ADA ramp, which is on the last car, to make sure that we have proper alignment for the ADA ramp to be able to come down and meet up with the platform in the very back end of the train.
00:45:44Aboard the Mark Twain are much larger than the engines and cylinders that we have aboard the Mark Twain.
00:45:50Did you guys ride a Mark Twain yet?
00:45:52Yeah.
00:45:53Yeah.
00:45:54Yeah, that was nice.
00:45:56I didn't realize it has a real steam engine.
00:45:59It truly does.
00:46:00We run that too.
00:46:01Oh, wow.
00:46:02It's a Scotch Marine designed boiler that's located in the middle of the main deck.
00:46:07And we fired that boiler at approximately between 100 to 110 pounds.
00:46:12It's a fairly low pressure system, actually.
00:46:16And it's delivering the steam through an overhead pipe into the two engines, which are towards the back end of the boat.
00:46:25And they may have, what, a 16 to 18 inch diameter, whereas the pistons aboard the locomotives are only 10 inch diameter, I believe.
00:46:38We have a very short stroke here for those pistons going back and forth inside the cylinder.
00:46:45On the Mark Twain, each engine takes a four-foot-long stroke.
00:46:52What, the bales and all this stuff.
00:46:54What do all these, does this require steam?
00:46:56Well, my job is to keep the pressure at bottom 125.
00:47:02This may feel blowered atomizer.
00:47:07So it goes too high and let some pressure off?
00:47:10Why, I can adjust the atomizer in the blower.
00:47:15You know, blower obviously keeps a lot of air circulating inside the firebox.
00:47:21And it just helps keep the fire that nice, or whatever I want to do, keep it hot fire or low fire.
00:47:31I see.
00:47:32And I think you saw, does the light, what tells you when to go?
00:47:35Uh, they tell us when to go.
00:47:37In a way, the outside light that you see that we're just about to cross here on the right is considered a dispatch signal for the conductor.
00:47:46Oh, I can be on that.
00:47:47And once that turns green, it tells the conductor that we are clear to leave the station at their discretion.
00:48:01We can only change it, there we can at someobic social time.
00:48:08We can go back and see that theДFrank would can fix air the train so that we could go there.
00:48:14So, we are just right, sure.
00:48:15On the front seat.
00:48:18One door will be on the train, but we are safe, so that's the Și-Anthных Lacan.
00:48:24Now, conversely, our line is going to be the same.
00:48:54The line is configured or set up in 10 physical blocks.
00:48:58This is my device here.
00:49:03It lets me know if the block in front of me is clear.
00:49:10If the drain is residing in that block, it will not let me go into that next block.
00:49:14It will help me.
00:49:15Oh, I see.
00:49:16It will let me turn to red, meaning I need to stop, let me stop now.
00:49:24Oh, my God, I thought she was going to start working a little water so I can back off.
00:49:42I don't think whatever you've got to do over there, it's on my daily path.
00:49:50It is currently green.
00:49:52That means the physical block ahead of me is unoccupied by a train.
00:49:56I see.
00:49:56So I can go right into that next block.
00:50:00Now, the block ahead of that, more than likely, is also clear as well right now.
00:50:06Since our goal is to approach and make a stop at the next station, which resides in the very next block,
00:50:12the center is across into that next physical block, which will mean about 15 feet, I'm going to get a yellow light.
00:50:19Now, that just means that I'm going to get to this station where I'm stuck.
00:50:24And here's my yellow light.
00:50:25Here's my yellow light.
00:50:25Here's my yellow light.
00:50:55Here's my yellow light.
00:51:25here's my yellow light.
00:51:28And here's my yellow light.
00:51:29Here's my yellow light.
00:51:31Here's your yellow light.
00:51:31Here's my yellow light.
00:51:32Now, you reach out throughout the entire day.
00:51:34As we're sitting correctly behind the back head of the boiler.
00:51:39And all these vowels are going right into and attached to physically.
00:51:42So it's radiating the heat out.
00:51:43How long do you work without a break?
00:51:45It goes, two hours.
00:51:46Two hours.
00:51:47Take care, buddy.
00:51:48See ya.
00:51:49We have an eight-hour shift.
00:51:53So you're on to, up to?
00:51:57So we're on for two hours, taking a 15-minute break, 30-minute lunch.
00:52:01And then we're right back on. Our job is to make sure that they get the break.
00:52:05And we are the breakers.
00:52:07We are actually breakers today.
00:52:09So instead of being charged to a particular cab,
00:52:13and it being our responsibility for the day,
00:52:17we just go around from one cab to the next to the next,
00:52:21relieving those crews throughout the day.
00:52:23Oh, I see.
00:52:25In this fashion, it's very cool,
00:52:27because we get to operate all the equipment over the course of one day.
00:52:31Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're all different.
00:52:33All the engines are different?
00:52:35Essentially, yes.
00:52:37And you will find that, even though they're,
00:52:39because they're so mechanical,
00:52:41they have, they develop a personality, if you will,
00:52:45and the operating personality.
00:52:47And that personality changes from day to day,
00:52:49because it's just such a basic mechanical type of equipment.
00:52:53Oh, interesting.
00:52:55Very interesting.
00:52:57And over time, we learn those little idiosyncrasies, if you will,
00:53:03of that particular locomotive,
00:53:05and kind of adapt to how it needs to be operated.
00:53:17How often do you have to take that with Colt?
00:53:19You don't use Colt.
00:53:21As a matter of fact,
00:53:23engines three and five were, in fact,
00:53:27built originally for service with Colt.
00:53:31But sometime during their career,
00:53:33they were converted over to burning fuel oil,
00:53:37which is what we use today.
00:53:39Oh, fuel oil. Okay, okay.
00:53:40It's a type of fuel oil.
00:53:41In the last 50 years,
00:53:43we've been burning diesel 2 as a fuel oil source.
00:53:46But at the beginning of last year,
00:53:48in 2007,
00:53:49we converted the five locomotives
00:53:51to burning a soybean oil,
00:53:53a biodiesel.
00:53:54Wow.
00:53:55Much more environmentally friendly.
00:53:58Yeah, yeah.
00:53:59It is.
00:54:01Huh.
00:54:14On a straight track,
00:54:15what would be a top speed that the engine could go?
00:54:1830 miles an hour.
00:54:20Excuse me.
00:54:21Up to, perhaps, 40 miles an hour.
00:54:24Wow.
00:54:26And make that just the locomotive itself,
00:54:29along with the tender car for the fuel of the water.
00:54:31Yeah.
00:54:36No hills.
00:54:37No curves.
00:54:38Right, right.
00:54:39Just a nice, flat strut of track.
00:54:41Wow.
00:54:47It also depends on the wheel configuration
00:54:50of each locomotive.
00:54:51The larger the diameter of the wheel is,
00:55:02the faster she'll travel.
00:55:03Look over your right shoulder through this corner.
00:55:05You're going to see our roundhouse.
00:55:07Oh.
00:55:08And the current left leg.
00:55:10Uh-huh.
00:55:11That's locomotive number three.
00:55:13Uh-huh.
00:55:14Just refilled over this year.
00:55:15Wow.
00:55:16It's our oldest locomotive region.
00:55:18This is originally manufactured by Vulcan locomotive ports in 1894.
00:55:22Wow.
00:55:23Wow.
00:55:24How long is the trip around the park?
00:55:31How many miles is it?
00:55:34It's got to be just over one mile.
00:55:37Uh-huh.
00:55:38Notice I have a speedometer gauge up here, and it's calibrating.
00:55:59It confirms us.
00:56:00Peak per second.
00:56:01Ah.
00:56:02I'm actually at the speed around the park.
00:56:04It's 70 feet per second.
00:56:05Translates to about, uh, converts to the other range of thousands.
00:56:10Thirteen and a half, fourteen miles per hour.
00:56:13Uh-huh.
00:56:22Come on foot.
00:56:23Look back there.
00:56:24Actually, we're a little slower than that.
00:56:42I believe 14 feet per second, uh, converts to, uh, 10 miles per hour.
00:56:48So we're probably traveling between 11 and 12 miles per hour.
00:56:51Uh-huh.
00:56:52Uh-huh.
00:56:5350 feet per second is, uh, uh, 12.88 miles per hour.
00:56:55Uh-huh.
00:56:56Uh-huh.
00:56:57Very good.
00:56:58Uh-huh.
00:56:59Uh-huh.
00:57:00Uh-huh.
00:57:01I forgot.
00:57:02Uh-huh.
00:57:03Uh-huh.
00:57:04Uh-huh.
00:57:05Uh-huh.
00:57:06So we're taking a relatively slow pace around the park.
00:57:09Right.
00:57:10Uh-huh.
00:57:11Uh-huh.
00:57:12Uh-huh.
00:57:13Uh-huh.
00:57:14Uh-huh.
00:57:15Uh-huh.
00:57:16Uh-huh.
00:57:17Uh-huh.
00:57:18Uh-huh.
00:57:19Uh-huh.
00:57:20Uh-huh.
00:57:21Of course you enjoy it.
00:57:22Oh, yeah.
00:57:23We're operating vintage, truly vintage live scheme equipment in a multi-million dollar
00:57:28landscape.
00:57:29We're having a good time.
00:57:30Yeah.
00:57:31And they actually pay us for it.
00:57:34So, yeah, we have a very good time.
00:57:36Although, let it be known that when the summer months roll around, it's hot.
00:57:42It's hot.
00:57:43Yeah.
00:57:44You must drink a lot of liquid.
00:57:45We do.
00:57:50Matter of fact, speaking off the record, my name is currently Fred.
00:57:55Uh-huh.
00:57:56Sure, Fred.
00:57:57You're not sure.
00:57:58Yeah.
00:57:59It's hot.
00:58:00Yeah.
00:58:01Yeah.
00:58:02Yeah.
00:58:03Yeah.
00:58:04Yeah.
00:58:05Yeah.
00:58:06Yeah.
00:58:07Yeah.
00:58:08The company shies away from guests being able to see us carrying something like this.
00:58:14But in this heat, you have to.
00:58:16It's a matter of survival for us, really.
00:58:18Exactly.
00:58:19Because, like I said, one of our engineers truly brought in a thermometer, an automotive thermometer,
00:58:24one day in the middle of that last heat wave that we had.
00:58:27I suspended it from the cab room, and we said, Gary, we already know it's hot.
00:58:33We don't have to prove anything.
00:58:35I want to see what it is.
00:58:37And what was it?
00:58:38It pegged at 130.
00:58:40Oh, my God.
00:58:41Oh, gee.
00:58:42That's too much.
00:58:43Oh, that's hot.
00:58:46So we earned our pegged during the summer months.
00:58:50Yeah, that's fine.
00:59:00But the outside air temperature is just the outside air temperature.
00:59:04By 20 to 30 degrees, and that's the temperature inside of the panel.
00:59:08So Curtis explained a bit about the fireman's side, and his controls as the fireman.
00:59:22Oh, she's not going to go.
00:59:24Essentially, the center pit that's been centered up inside the cylinder.
00:59:27And I can't gain a movement advantage, at least in the forward direction.
00:59:34So I'm going to go back a little bit, up to about a foot.
00:59:37And that should give me an advantage I need to start rolling forward again.
00:59:46And there we go.
00:59:57So on my side of the cab, the throttle lever, a reversing lever, as you just saw.
01:00:07I bring that all the way back.
01:00:11It causes the wheels to rotate backwards.
01:00:16So it's affecting the direction of the train.
01:00:18As well as, once we're in motion, I can start bringing this far back.
01:00:23And for the same throttle setting, I'm using less lean for the same amount of work.
01:00:28It's like an economizer, or a gear shift, in a way.
01:00:32It's a diorama here.
01:00:52It's actually built, I believe, at the Burbank Studios, and was shipped to New York for the
01:00:59World Trade, World Trade Fair, for Expo.
01:01:04I think it's 60, 60 something, 64, I think.
01:01:08Right.
01:01:09World's Fair.
01:01:10That's when it's a Small World debut, I think.
01:01:12Yes.
01:01:13And this whole set piece was shipped back to California, and it's inset back into the park,
01:01:24and it's been here ever since.
01:01:28I remember this from when I was a kid.
01:01:31Absolutely.
01:01:32Probably 50 years old.
01:01:35Fairly low maintenance, we just have to feed the dinosaurs about, what, once a week, is
01:01:44it?
01:01:45Ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:01:46Very, very cool.
01:01:50I don't know.
01:02:20Oh, you're right, can you see your brother?
01:02:33Nothing, I didn't know.
01:02:34Yes.
01:02:50Oh, this is great.
01:03:08Boy, thank you so much.
01:03:09Yeah, thank you.
01:03:10This is great.
01:03:11Good ride.
01:03:12No problem.
01:03:20We have fun.
01:03:36We have fun.
01:03:41Here we go.
01:03:54Here we go.
01:03:58So let's get started here.
01:04:27Let's go.
01:04:57Now we're going to close all going down the hill. Now I'm going to start using the brake a little bit. Watch the brake kind of go up. Don't try and be tart.
01:05:15I'm going to take water and there's another water glass over here. I'm going to open the steam up here. Here we go.
01:05:27There's a speedometer right there if you want to see the odometer.
01:05:51There's a speedometer right there.
01:05:54There's a speedometer right there.
01:05:57There's fast przeciw commandments.
01:06:00There's a speedometer.
01:06:02There's a speedometer right there.
01:06:03Then 2,000 gallons which is a fine atmosphere.
01:06:09Now on the trail.
01:06:11I'm going to open the braking kilogram bag just for 15 cents.
01:06:17Everything I'm going to open is made up this morning priority.
01:06:22I'm going to park this baby right under the bag.
01:06:52I'm going to park this baby right under the bag.
01:07:17I'm going to make a little shuffle sound with a brake on it and let that.
01:07:44I'm going to park this baby right under the bag.
01:07:51I'm going to park this baby right under the bag.
01:07:59I'm going to park this baby right under the bag.
01:08:06I'm going to park this baby right under the bag.
01:08:13I'm going to park this baby right under the bag.
01:08:20I'm going to park this baby right under the bag.
01:08:25I'm going to park this baby right under the bag.
01:08:32I'm going to park this baby right under the bag.
01:08:37I'm going to park this baby right under the bag.
01:08:47I'm going to park this baby right under the bag.
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