The Walt Disney World Railroad 

now that the dutch theme park is converting their steam locos to electric i am extra happy to see the care and dedication that is taken for these locos,

Oh wow. It's nice of you to share your own piece of history with this railroad! Such a great story! Let's hope the railraods all stick around for generations to come!

That was wonderful, Michael. Thank you!

The part with that MTH prototype near the end made me think of the modified models done by Fairest Of Them All Locomotive Works.

Great video, sure brought back some great memories of my time as a conductor and engineer back in the 70's! Had a great summer as part of the "Steam One" crew watching them build Space Mountain as we circled the park! I fondly remember that when the track was wet (dew or rain) you'd have to keep your speed up in the Lilly coming up the back stretch just to get up the grade to Main Street! Otherwise you'd spin your drivers! No Fantasyland station in those days. Running three trains during the summer was a challenge as well.

Why am I just discovering this channel now when I’ve got an entire Playlist for anything about WDRR’s? It’s so informative, well presented & actually has what I’d consider a true link to the Rail Roads at Disney Parks. Hopefully there will be others about the Rail Roads at other parks such as DLP (which is my closest).

Great video Michael! As always keep them coming and thanks for giving us east coast railroad people some love!

Honey, get ready for bedtime, cause i've got the latest story book of "Once Upon A Train" from the library. COME QUICK !!! Nice to see ya back and great video as always. keep up the great work.

Lets not forget next year is the 100th anniversary of the twin locomotives. I hope they do something like a 1 day morning show, or putting special flags with a special logo, or even a 1 day early morning photo charter featuring a doubleheader before the park opens. I just hope they do something for these twin locos.

Excellent, as usual. 😁❤

I just wish the locomotives and cab crew were a little more accessible when in the park. As a steam engineer myself at another park, I wanted to get a much closer look at the engines when I visited in January. Couldn't even talk to the crew. They park where you can't stand next to them. We make it a point to be approachable by our guests for a little Q&A. It's a shame really.

This was a fantastic video, and I enjoyed the personal stories. Speaking of model Disney trains. Back in 2010, I believe, Disneyland, CA started selling an ATLAS N scale 4-4-0 replica of the C.K. Holliday. Well...being an N scaler at the time, I jumped on the opportunity to buy it. ATLAS sold many high quality N Scale 4-4-0's of various styles, and I bought quite a few of them...but the only one that ran perfectly right out of the box, was my C.K. Holliday while the rest were not useful at all (they couldn't even pull their own tender, but the Holliday locomotive was something special, it could pull all 8 cars of my replica Disneyland freight set). I ran that C.K. Holliday for 10 years on my layout until the rubber grip tires on it wore out. After that it went on display, and I gave away my N scale layout, and then switched to a much more reliable scale: On30. Did you say you helped design the narragansett coaches for N scale and HO scale? Because I bought the N scale ones, 5 of them, they are amazing. Now that I have an On30 layout, I wish I could get 5 of them made for my current layout.

Oh, how I'd live to visit the roundhouse!

Oh man, I’ve got the HLW Lilly Belle and Ward Kimball but I would be the first person in line if anyone ever made any G or F scale models of the Walt Disney World Railroad. Same with the Disneyland railroad! CK Holliday is my favorite locomotive but I’ve only got that one in N scale and I’m too afraid to run it haha

Michael, another great episode!!! I really enjoyed this and I hope the "toy" trains some day com to fruition.

Great documentary Mike! I’m lucky to have some train sets related to the WDWRR. The New Bright set. The Scientific Toys set. The HO set. And now the Lionel set. I’m so glad Lionel and Disney are working together on producing smaller scale sets. The Scientific toys large scale set was all the was available everywhere on Disney property. I saw it unnecessary to have only a large scale set available. Thanks to Lionel it’s all finally scaled down a little. I also have N scale models of Walt Disney’s trains manufactured by Atlas in collaboration with Lowell Smith and Bachmann. From Atlas and Lowell I have the CPRR Lilly Belle, and Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad CK Holiday with its 3 car freight train. The Bachmann set was hard to find and very expensive as it was only sold to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Disneyland in Anaheim CA. Bachmann also produced an HO set of the CPRR. With all 4 locomotives having just about been overhauled again this time by Strasburg Railroad in Pennsylvania I hope after Roy’s overhauling all 4 locomotives can have a proper christening ceremony with champagne bottles being broken on the front.

Excellent Michael! For me, the best parts of these videos have been your discussions about the various collectibles. I always learn something new.

I truly enjoyed this trip down memory lane, nice job!

I have an old HO scale Trainset in my collection. However, I would love a modern DCC HO scale set with all the bells and whistles(pun intended). Companies like Rapido can make incredibly detailed model trains these days, I would love if the Disney trains would become available.

Engine #3 is Roger E Broggie & #4 is Roy Disney.

Have to say I’m so happy that this series is still going, I was scared it had stopped. Fantastic work! Keep chugging along 🚂

I’ll be damned didn’t expect this channel to pop up. nice content ya making here. Personally wished the company’s modern products were up to standards like classics pre-2000s movie/tv show wise and ain’t controversial, but ya can’t deny the solid railroad stuff Walt did. Can’t wait to see more!

Hey it’s Davenport! 3:56

Amazing video! Is it possible to watch the full 'Roy O. Disney' rededication ceremony anywhere?

I always learn so much from this channel. Amazing work as usual! At 4:22 Bob is sitting on top of Lulu, one of the locomotives we have on display here at the Lomita Railroad Museum. It was one of the "showroom engines" that Irene Lewis had to promote the Little Engines company. Should you ever be looking for information or photos for a project about other live steam history, we would love to help you research!

I am a Disney World Passholder … Just so I can take the grand circle tour once a week.

I absolutely love this guy’s voice

Ahh i wish Hartland followed through with the Walter model. That looks gorgeous.

Great video!! I just sent the link to old friend Joel Fritsche.

Sorry, something else I didn't know about locomotives #s 3 & 4. Anyhoo, I wish I was 29 or in my 30's in 2002 for the celebration of 100 Years of Magic at WDW.

Error Number 3 is Roger E Broggie & Number 4 is Roy O Disney.

This is amazing! Do you know where I could find the full video of the Roy O Disney re-dedication? Thank you!

The video of the redecation event of the the roy o disney war can i find it ?

So did the 5th locomotive get sold for preservation or scrap?

What was the Roy o Disney show