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jayo · **Posted:** Sun Jul 17, 2005 1:55 pm

Hey if anyone is going to Disneyland anytime, please get pictures of the model of their opening day. It's too far for me and I want to see what the trains on the mini SF&DLRR. If anyone can get good shots of the models of the railroad's engines as well as the horse car, Casey Jr., andmaybe the mine train ride, post them here.

Thanks.

Locoboy5150 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 17, 2005 11:12 pm

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maybe the mine train ride

The large model on display inside the Opera House on Main Street shows Disneyland as it appeared on opening day, 7-17-05. The Rainbow Caverns Mine Train (later expanded into the Mine Train Thru Nature's Wonderland in 1960) opened a year later in 1956, thus it is not shown in the model. That area where the Mine Train would later be located is a large grassy area with a few trees.

The only trains shown in the model are the DRR and Casey Jr. Circus Train.

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jayo · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:19 am

Oh, well then just the railroad and the Casey Jr. RR. Thanks :cool:

Steve DeGaetano · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2005 10:41 am

The trains are modeled using Bachmann N scale 4-4-0s. The C.K. Holliday has a modified balloon stack. They were painted, but not lettered. Someone switched the tenders, so the CK has a green tender, and the Ripley has a red tender. The passenger cars are MDC N scale shorty coaches; the freight trains consists of a mish-mash of modern 40' N scale stock cars, no gondolas, and an SP caboose.

jayo · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2005 3:00 pm

Interesting...

Does the Ripley have the wrong light?

Steve DeGaetano · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2005 3:49 pm

Not much modification was done to the engines that I could tell, aside from the stack on the Holliday. I bet the headlight on both engines is the regular box headlight.

What really got me was Frontierland Station. The station has zero detailing! No doors, no windlws--just the station shape! This is strange because the other builders on Main Street are very well detailed.

Oh, and there's no water tank for the trains!

Locoboy5150 · **Posted:** Mon Jul 18, 2005 8:26 pm

I'm looking at my photos of the Disneyland model. Both 4-4-0 locomotives have box style headlights and at the time I took my pictures last May, the tenders were switched as Steve described. It's kind of hard to see clearly in one of my photos, but I think that the green tender behind the C.K. Holliday not only is the wrong one, but it's also hooked up backwards! :laugh:

Somebody *please* get in that glass case and fix that model!

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jayo · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:15 pm

Maybe the Frontierland station originally didn't have doors, windows, etc. on it. Maybe they were added in later years. :laugh:
Tender on backwards? That's not possible! Anyone who has the N scale Bachmann 4-4-0's(like myself) would know they couldn't have done that without completely rebuilding the car. ???

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Locoboy5150 · **Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:00 am

Hmmm...maybe it's not coupled together and it's just sitting there. It's kind of hard to tell in my photos. It just kind of looked backwards at first glance.

Colin · **Posted:** Thu Aug 04, 2005 12:50 am

Here are some photos I took on 6/18/05.
[url=http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/Colin/Opening%20Day%20Model%20Casey%20Jr-1.JPG]Casey Jr and Fantasyland[/url]
[url=http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/Colin/Opening%20Day%20Model%20Casey%20Jr-2.JPG]Casey Jr. model[/url]
[url=http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/Colin/Opening%20Day%20Model%20CK-1.JPG]C.K. Holliday with modified stack and backwards Ripley tender[/url]
[url=http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/Colin/Opening%20Day%20Model%20CK-2.JPG]C.K. Holliday, the backwards tender is more apparent[/url]
[url=http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/Colin/Opening%20Day%20Model%20EP-1.JPG]Overhead view of E.P. Ripley[/url]
[url=http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/Colin/Opening%20Day%20Model%20EP-2.JPG]E.P. Ripley and Retlaw 1 leaving Main Street Station[/url]
[url=http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/Colin/Opening%20Day%20Model%20Frontier%20Land-1.JPG]The plain Frontierland Station[/url]

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