Firing up the Disneyland Railroad locomotives steam each morning
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Every morning the Disneyland Railroad staff inspect and fire up the locomotives before the park opens. This includes lighting up the fire box and inspecting underneath the engine. Watch how the engineers get a Disneyland locomotive ready for the day.
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I’m glad Disney has working steam locomotives in it’s park, and it is nice to see steam locomotives still being used today
😁RIGHT!?
Indeed. Walt Disney himself had a deep fascination for steam locomotives, so it's nice to see it in action even to this day.
Fun fact for historic rail enthusiasts who visit the parks: three of the Disneyland Railroad's five locomotives are authentic historic locomotives built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works, built in the 1890s to 1920s. Only the 4-4-0s (including the E.P. Ripley) are company-built replicas.
On the other side of the coast however, there is an authentic BLW 4-4-0: the Roy O. Disney, alongside a 2-6-0 and two 4-6-0 locomotives also built by Baldwin. WDWRR's locomotives were found in Mexico, and transported to Florida for restoration, before being put back into service in preparation for Walt Disney World's opening day.
Walt loved trains. the ride was originally called the Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad, and one of the locos was named after a president of the Santa Fe. Walt could often be found at the throttle of one of the trains, and most guests didn't realize it.
"And it will be surrounded by a train"
It smells like fried chicken. It apparently burns recycled cooking oil.
Thats correct. The wikipedia listing confirms that change: "Several changes have also been made to its rolling stock, including the conversion of one of its train cars into a parlor car in the mid-1970s, and the switch from diesel oil to biodiesel to fuel its locomotives in the late 2000s."
And that’s how I discovered and know very well about biodiesel! Also the Mark Twain riverboat uses biodiesel to
The gentleman said, "This is the one that opened the park in 55, July 17th." I'm wondering why it has the number 2 if it's the original engine.
Maybe the #1 engine was broke down the first day, or wasn't finished being assembled, or it wasn't painted, or Disney just happened to point at #2 and say "get this train running"
#2 was Walt's favorite engine.
#2 was Walt’s favorite locomotive. He would drive her daily too
EP Ripley was the locomotive that opened Disneyland, CK Holliday wasn’t ready for service yet
That's a fine train 🚂
How much time does it take from checking all the stuff to when the train leaves the roundhouse?
Thank you for this Video. Made my boys day.
I like this
This is soooo cool!
so about how long does it take to steam it up to operating pressure? and (if you can say) what procedures do they go through before during and after steam up?
Surprised they don't judge it more economical to keep the engine hot all the time.
B. Xoit Half an hour of one employee's labor in the morning is much cheaper than 8-12 hours of fuel for five locomotives, plus staff to watch for fires and problems at night.
Not to mention the fact that boilers that run dry have a tendency to explode, and i doubt anyone is going to want to sit in the cab all night watching the water level and constantly adding more.
OK, but the other side of the comparison would have to take into account the more frequent repairs and part replacements made necessary by the extra wear on the boiler and firebox caused by the daily cool-downs and warm-ups.
Trust me, the firebox doesn't give 2 shits about the heat/cool cycle lol, its just a metal box holding fire, doesn't really have to deal with too much pressure. The boiler life might be shorter warming up and cooling down every day but not by much. It has 0 moving parts when its just sitting there warming up, plus its riveted together not welded so the metal plates have a few millimeters of wiggle room to deal with expansion and contraction plus no welds to fatigue and crack.
I will point out the firebox is metal and the rivets and staybolts do take time to heat up again and expand, the whole engine that gets hot has to get heated, now it could be that the engine is so small it only takes a half hour to bring to temprature, since they ran for many hours and dont have much time to cool, or they are rigged to house steam that is how they kept the big engines ready in the roundhouse to be brought to pressure more quickly, the best way to avoid stress on the boiler is to keep it hot, so it dont expand and contract constantly, and mind you when a big steamer like a lima berk cools down it has soo much insulation it takes a week to cool down entirely like pm 1225 or nkp 765 which is the one I help out with as a volenteer, and it takes from a cold start 8 hours to get 765 fully steamed up otherwise it will put undue stress on the parts of the engine, and we as a non for profit can ill afford to have to spend more then we do to replace critical parts when they go bad or have to do rebuilds before they are planned and or needed, like the 15 year which we are doing this winter the other half, we did the first part with the flues and pipes 2 years ago.
1:12 what does that control panel do?
“In the wee early morning hours?” They are doing an inspection in the morning, when you don’t have time to fix a discrepancy before the park opens?
Since Disney runs everything so well, ( except for their IT department now they fired American workers and hired foreigners, Indians at dimes on the dollar) maybe they can petition the airlines to do inspections in the morning before their first flights.
In the real world, after the last train stop, and when they were put in the roundhouse for the night, they would be inspected for railworthiness so they could be fixed then. They would have 9-10 hours to fix anything that cam up so there wouldn’t be any surprises in the am. I have a feeling this narrator completely missed the mark. The engineers are simply doing a “preflight.” The REAL workers are probably working all through the night making sure the train is ready for the next day. This narrator shows NO respect for their great mechanics that keep that park humming beautifully. And no I do t work there, but am amazed at the quality of maintenance on all of their rides and equipment.
I just went there two weeks ago for vacation and it ALL worked! Hat tip to all the excellent Disney Mechanics!
SMH to all the people that think greasy things get fixed by pixie dust.
They have five entire train sets, including five locomotives. Usually three trains are running a day, maybe four if the park is especially busy. If the engineers find something wrong in the morning, they pass the issue on and switch to a different train set.
They inspect the trains at the end of the day for anything that has broken during the day, however they can not check everything what with parts of the engine being very hot and dripping boiling water. Besides the checks start a couple hours before the boiler is even lit so there's plenty of time to fix something or switch engines.
This is literally how steam operations have been run on every railroad that runs steam for over a century and a half.
I do hope there will be female driver in Disneyland ❤️
Last time I was at Disneyland there was a female firemen so not too far off.
@@manhunter433 okay👌🏼
There’s be a few actually