Disneyland to close their railroad attraction for the year. Engines now to be on display for tourist - Polidicks

[url=http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2016/01/guests-to-experience-disneyland-park-attractions-in-new-ways-throughout-2016/]Source from the D-blog[/url] [quote]While the Disneyland Railroad is temporarily closed this year, guests at the Main Street and New Orleans Square Train Stations will be able to get up-close with the historic steam engines that have circled Disneyland park for decades, learn about these amazing machines firsthand from our own train engineers and even take a picture with an engine! Each engine will be accompanied by knowledgeable train engineers, who will share fun facts, details on how the engines operate, stories from the history of the Disneyland Railroad and more.[/quote] A lot of things are coming to the Disneyland Park with the talk Star Wars Land in the works, they're probably starting to perform maintenance in other areas as well. These locomotives are truly working pieces of history and art and it's nice for them to let the park goers to get a close-up and check them out. [img]http://parksandresorts.wdpromedia.com/media/disneyparks/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ste820173LARGE.jpg[/img] [img]http://cs.trains.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/staff/7357.DSC_5F00_0139.jpg[/img] [img]http://davelandweb.com/dlrr/images/mainstreet/2000/2013/DSC_3805.jpg[/img] [img]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Disneyland_200707_Number5_NewOrleansSquare.jpg[/img] [quote]As of 2007, each Disneyland Railroad locomotive has been converted to burn B98 biodiesel which burns cleaner than traditional coal, wood, or heavy "Bunker C" oil normally used on oil burning steam locomotives. Disneyland then began recycling its own cooking oil into biodiesel, further reducing fuel costs. The locomotives are fueled by biodiesel blended primarily from used cooking oils drained from Disneyland kitchen fryers then filtered and blended with enough soy based fuel to supply operation, giving credence to guests being able to smell french fries in the tunnels.[/quote]

They're real trains? that's cool. I've always wanted to ride on a train like amtrak. I'm going to go to school in richmond next year, and I live in Washington, DC, so maybe I can take a train from union station to Richmond sometime! What is it like riding on amtrak? is it fun?

Disney has been a little bit of a bummer with all their renovation stuff going on. They had a few rides down for renovation, and all of the water rides (and water from non-water rides, sans Pirates) closed/drained when I went last year. Was fun, but it's a disappointing to see Splash Mountain, Grizzly River and the Matterhorn shut down when you go there! No mountains to be seen!

[QUOTE=proboardslol;49474463]They're real trains? that's cool. I've always wanted to ride on a train like amtrak. I'm going to go to school in richmond next year, and I live in Washington, DC, so maybe I can take a train from union station to Richmond sometime! What is it like riding on amtrak? is it fun?[/QUOTE] when i went from baltimore to dc it was alright. seats were pretty spacious and the car was empty enough for me to have my own seat

[QUOTE=proboardslol;49474463]They're real trains? that's cool. I've always wanted to ride on a train like amtrak. I'm going to go to school in richmond next year, and I live in Washington, DC, so maybe I can take a train from union station to Richmond sometime! What is it like riding on amtrak? is it fun?[/QUOTE] Amtrak as in the passenger trains? At least where I live there's a stop every few miles and it takes forever to get anywhere.

[QUOTE=sgman91;49474660]Amtrak as in the passenger trains? At least where I live there's a stop every few miles and it takes forever to get anywhere.[/QUOTE] Well I meant for long-distance travel, not intra-city travel. We've got the DC metro for that and it's good enough IMO. Other people have problems but I've never had an issue with it

[QUOTE=proboardslol;49474753]Well I meant for long-distance travel, not intra-city travel. We've got the DC metro for that and it's good enough IMO. Other people have problems but I've never had an issue with it[/QUOTE] I remember riding a train for 2 days from New York to Texas when I was much younger, and remember it being pretty cool, but kinda boring after a bit. I remember hearing something about running over an animal during the night too.

I went to disneyland paris one year. The lines there were fucking ridiculous.

[QUOTE=proboardslol;49474753]Well I meant for long-distance travel, not intra-city travel. We've got the DC metro for that and it's good enough IMO. Other people have problems but I've never had an issue with it[/QUOTE] Got it, yeah, I live in Southern California and the city just spreads too far for a metro system. So the only real train to use is the Amtrak. It's decent if you want to go to LA and not bring a car, but other than that it takes twice as long as driving to get anywhere.

[QUOTE=Narlo445;49474888]I remember riding a train for 2 days from New York to Texas when I was much younger, and remember it being pretty cool, but kinda boring after a bit. I remember hearing something about running over an animal during the night too.[/QUOTE] My birthday is a weekend this year; I think I'll take a train to see my girlfriend in richmond that weekend as a birthday present to myself. Can you drink on trains? I'm turning 21

[QUOTE=sgman91;49475094]Got it, yeah, I live in Southern California and the city just spreads too far for a metro system. So the only real train to use is the Amtrak. It's decent if you want to go to LA and not bring a car, but other than that it takes twice as long as driving to get anywhere.[/QUOTE] I assume you mean San Diego - what about Coaster and the useless abomination of Sprinter?

From personal experience, riding Amtrak is fun, but you should probably do it in the spring or fall. When I was going down to Raleigh from Philly, the temperature was too hot for the trains to go too fast, as the tracks would buckle. Eventually, our train had to be stopped, because it was too hot and there was an express coming. And they turned the AC off for about 15 minutes. It was living hell.