Miscellaneous Pics

StartedByAMouse · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2005 2:27 pm

Here are a few miscellaneous pictures from around the Disneyland Resort that might be of interest ...

The Fred Gurley on the Critter Country Trestle

A model of the Fred Gurley above the showline in the Storybook Store on Main Street

A detail shot of part of the new display in the Disneyland Opera House

A golden Casey Jr. Railroad engine

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

The steam donkey on the backside of Big Thunder Trail

Matt

Steve · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2005 2:38 pm

StartedByAMouse wrote:

The steam donkey on the backside of Big Thunder Trail

Hot Lead and Cold Feet!

And now I know where your current avatar came from. Thanks for sharing all those pictures!

Steve DeGaetano · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2005 5:15 pm

Yeah, I was wondering about that avatar! Very cool!

But in your first picture, the Gurley is pulling the wrong train. :p

Chris · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2005 5:29 pm

Holiday Green, wrong train for Gurley? ??? :p

Ed Kelley · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2005 6:06 pm

Thanks for sharing the photos.

The Hot Lead & Cold Feet contraption on Big Thunder Trail is far from a donkey, which would be used from a stationary point to pull logs (usually uphill) in place of having draft animals do the job. But it's a neat prop that sure stands out at the quietest part of the park.

My question is, how many of these were made? There's one at the WDW attraction, and I believe there's a second at Disneyland actually on the ride itself.

FirehouseFivePlusTwo · **Posted:** Thu May 26, 2005 8:52 pm

Ed, the second one is in the middle of the queue line. The queue kinda loops around it.

Steve · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2005 9:02 am

You can almost see the one at WDW in this picture. Almost. This is just before the trains go back into the loading station.

StartedByAMouse · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2005 11:14 am

Interestingly, I would never have come up with the term "steam donkey" on my own to describe these little engines. I would have guessed that I ran across it when studying for the Disney Store trivia contest. However, I went back and looked at some of the books that might have mentioned it and I couldn't find it referred to as that anywhere. Thanks for correcting my usage.

As mentioned above, there are two on display at Disneyland -- one on the trail, shown in my picture, and one in the queue area. Steve's got one pictured from Walt Disney World. Is that a replica? I seem to recall two used in Hot Lead and Cold Feet. Perhaps this was a spare of some sort? I'm not sure.

And, Chris, it is actually the blue train set being pulled by the Gurley in the first picture, not green. A little tough to see with all of the shadows.

Matt

StartedByAMouse · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2005 11:24 am

And this is an even more complete view of the graphic where I got my avatar from.

Pullman, I believe, has posted some of the railroad graphics from this exhibit. It is a pretty low-light situation and I didn't have my tripod so I'll need to reshoot some of the pictures from there but this gives you an idea of some of what is displayed. I believe in the display case featuring park tickets through the years that they've included some original Disneyland Railroad tickets.

Matt

Steve DeGaetano · **Posted:** Fri May 27, 2005 11:36 am

Thanks, Matt.

That graphic looks to be concept art for the brochures Disney created along with the AT&SF, advertising both the real Santa Fe and Disneyland---cross-marketing at its best. I wish they would have produced the brochures to look like the concept!

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