Skip to main content

Replies sorted oldest to newest

I captured a clip from a video this morning from a live-streamer at Walt Disney World:

Looks like a conduit of some sort, perhaps for signalling?  Or is there a big center rail roller?

. . . or perhaps it's a pulling cable, like the SF cable cars, and all the huffing and puffing is just a gigantic smoke unit? Just sayin' . . .

Last edited by Steve Tyler

They're not live steam, it's all simulated.

I beg to differ.  The locomotive shown in the video *IS live steam.  There was an earlier video showing trial runs after the RR had been dormant for awhile that shows that same loco taking on water (into the tender) from that same water tower, not simulated.  In that video you can hear the steam powered compressor chuffing and in this video you can see the exhaust in time to what would be that same 2 beat chuff of the compressor.  Also in this video, the engineer gives the single toot stop signal and that's not dry ice vapor coming out of the whistle.  I can't speak for all the WDW RR equipment but this loco most certainly is live steam.

They're not live steam, it's all simulated.

OPPS Beg to differ with you this one time John. I took the behind the train startup up tour and they have live steam in Walt Disney World. They showed us the shop and how they start up cold engines to prepare them for running in the park. Was a great tour but VERY HARD TO BOOK as it is always SOLD OUT!

Must be conduit for signaling as I do not remember even seeing the so called third rail between the tracks.

Curtis

The locomotives are REAL steam locomotives. They are old, but well maintained by Disney mechanical forces as well as outside contractors. The last time I was at the locomotive shops at Disney in Orlando, I ran into Scott Lindsay, who was there doing some work on one of the locomotives. Scott was Chief Mechanical Officer on the 611.



NOTE: I edited my own post to remove a political comment. I also deleted a couple of relevant follow up posts.

Last edited by Rich Melvin

Add Reply

Post

OGR Publishing, Inc., 1310 Eastside Centre Ct, Suite 6, Mountain Home, AR 72653
800-980-OGRR (6477)
www.ogaugerr.com

×
×
×
×
Link copied to your clipboard.
×
×