Carolwood Pacific Railroad

The Carolwood Pacific Railroad was a miniature of an old-fashioned live steam railroad, built by an American animated film producer and animator, Walt Disney (1901-1966) in the garden of the backyard of his home.

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Live steam - American - Animated film - Producer - Animator - Walt Disney

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Walt's uncle Michael Disney, had been a steam locomotive engineer. As a teenager in Missouri, Walt had a summer job selling newspapers, candy, fruit, and soda on the Missouri Pacific Railroad. Walt loved the uniform, the trains, the candy, and the chance to see the country.

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Steam locomotive - Missouri - Missouri Pacific Railroad

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It was Disney’s lifelong fascination with the railroad that in 1950 led to the building of the Carolwood Pacific Railroad (and even before that, a huge Lionel layout in a room adjacent to his office at the Studio).

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1950 - Lionel

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Entertaining his daughters and their friends in his backyard and taking them for rides on his 1/2 mile-long, 1/8th scale miniature railroad led Walt Disney to include the railroad which formed the backbone of his family-oriented Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California in 1955.

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Disneyland - Anaheim, California - 1955

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Today, railroads and monorails are featured at all the Walt Disney Company theme parks worldwide.

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Railroad - Monorail - Walt Disney Company

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