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I've always said "Roy" is my favorite! :laugh:


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Cool photos! I snapped lots of photos of Engine 3 during my last visit to the Magic Kingdom because it was the locomotive used to pull my tour group back to Main Street Station. It's a nice loooking ten wheeler in my book! :)

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As you can tell from my favorite engines, I am not a cap-stack fan.


I agree. Though I don't consider cap stacks "ugly" by any stretch of the imagination, I do prefer a nice fat spark arrestor on top. It kind of depends on the look of the locomotive though. I could never ever imagine a balloon stack on Fred Gurley for example! :laugh:

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Roy O. Disney was always my favorite locomotive on the WDWRR then Lilly Belle, then the Walter E. Disney, and Roger is my least favorite but that is because I have more of an attachment to the other three. The Roy is the only four wheeler and has a beautiful whistle, Lilly is a mogul and I love moguls, Walter has a nice paint job and looks beautiful, Roger has too many wheels in my opinion but is a beautiful engine and I love Roger's lamp painting. :)

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The Roy is the only four wheeler


This is the first time I've ever heard of a 4-4-0 referred to as a "four wheeler." I've always heard that wheel arrangement called an "American." Is "four wheeler" used too?

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I mean by number of driving wheels. Roy is the only one with four while the others have six. I use four wheeler as meaning the number of driving wheels on the locomotive even though Roy is actually and eight wheeler and so is Lilly.

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Roger has too many wheels in my opinion.......

Chris,

I'm not sure why you singled out the Roger as having too many wheels, but the Roger Broggie and the Walt Disney have the same number of wheels.

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Steve, when my family & I were at that location a few weeks ago, my 8 yr. old son asked me to take a picture of a loco for him to use as his own desktop. Guess what? it was the Roger that day also, & it has that same buffed look around the builder's plate.

I really miss the old Frontierland Depot as far as background around the trains. The Architecture, the wooden water tower & the trees. :(

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...it has that same buffed look around the builder's plate.

That was the first thing I noticed about it. Has someone been polishing the builder's plate extra hard?

I agree about the old Frontierland Station being a nice backdrop for the trains. You can get some great pictures in Mickey's Toontown Fair. But they would be even better if the station looked a lot less cartoony. Well actually, if it didn't look cartoony at all. I know it has to keep with the theme of the land, though. But wouldn't it have been nice if they could have built some sort of pathway up near the newer Frontierland Station for those of us who like to see the trains in their "natural" habitat?

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Great pictures, Steve! Thanks for sharing with us.

That being said, "Roger" is my least favorite of the WDWRR engines. For some reason, I don't like the small diamond stack on the 10-wheeler. On the other hand, it seems to work for me on "Lilly". Guess I am just weird that way... :p

I'm the same way, CB. I think Lilly pulls off the small diamond stack better than any engine I've seen, and it seems slightly out of place on the Roger.

If I knew more math I would try to explain my taste with proportions and golden means and whatnot.


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