While looking around on YouTube, I found this home video of the Walt Disney World Railroad from 1986:

Magic Kingdom Walt Disney Rail Road 1986 Disney World

While it does have the typical family home video feel to it, it is interesting for a few different reasons:

-It shows a little bit of the original Frontierland Station, which is where Splash Mountain now sits.

-The narration was live, because the recorded narration was not added until 1988.

-The train goes from Frontierland all the way around to Main Street USA, because there was not yet a third station on the line. You can see the big grassy area where Mickey's Birthdayland and following lands were later added.

The YouTube video is closed right now and will reopen tomorrow morning at...9 AM.

That's my era of WDW. While I grew up in So Cal and visited DL often by the 1980's I was married with kids living in NC. We started going to WDW every 2 years. I remember WDW fondly like I remember DL of the 1960's. My grand daughter will be 3.5 next summer and my daughter is talking about all of us going to WDW. I hope it lives up to my memories!

Hard to think those kids may be married with kids now!!! I'm old....better go to bed....

Just gotta do it, because I can...LOL...

The old (original) Frontierland station didn't sit where "where Splash Mountain now sits". It was just a little bit south. The original station was where the Frontierland crossing (parade/backstage crossing) is now, behind where that little food stand (Golden Oak?) is located, across from Pecos Bill's. In fact, it was just beyond the "big left turn" coming out of Pirates' tunnel. The original parade crossing was where Splash is now located.

But yeah, that station was pretty cool

Thanks! It helps to look at Google maps after reading the above and watching the video. Shocking how much that area has been developed in the last decades.

Yes you can, but you would be at least partially wrong. The Fry Cart is too far south. This has actually been discussed before - see this post from a few years ago.

And also, see this site plan:


(from Passport to Dreams Old and New

As the other post said: