Disneyland Railroad
The two original locomotives, the E.P. Ripley and the C.K. Holliday, were constructed at the Disney Studios and, like all four trains, were named after early executives of the Santa Fe Railroad. The Fred G. Gurley, built in 1894, once hauled sugarcane from distant Louisiana plantations to shipping docks in New Orleans. Found rusty from sitting idle, it was dismantled, cleaned, rebuilt, and repainted.
The fourth member of the quartet, the Ernest S. Marsh, was built in 1925 and used at a New England lumber mill. It too received a major overhaul.
Each year, these trains travel about 20,000 miles circling DisneylandŽ park.
FUN FACTS
Clydesdales were once tried out for the job of pulling the horse-drawn streetcars on Main Street at Disneyland, but they were so strong they pulled the cars off the tracks.
Walt Disney was so passionate about trains that he built a 1/8-scale railroad running through the backyard and rose gardens of his Holmby Hills home, much to his wife's dismay.
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