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Best Steam Trains: Walt Disney's Carolwood Barn
By MOLLY LAMBERT
Published on September 30, 2008 at 4:06pm
Steam trains were an obsession for Walt Disney since his childhood. From his earliest sketches, he planned to have a railroad circling around the park at Disneyland. Ward Kimball and Ollie Johnson, two of Disney Studios’ “Nine Old Men” of animation, shared the same obsession. They introduced Walt to their hobby of narrow-gauge live-steam backyard railroading, inspiring Disney to re-create the barn from his family home in Missouri and make his own miniature track. He used the barn as a workshop for his Carolwood Railroad, a fully operating steam train built an eighth of the size of the real thing on a half-mile of track. Although his train, the Lilly Belle, resides at Disneyland, Walt’s Carolwood Barn has been relocated to Griffith Park’s former Travel Town, now known as the Los Angeles Live Steamers Museum. The Barn is open free to the public on the third Sunday of each month, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., with guided tours provided by members of the Carolwood Pacific Historical Society
Los Angeles Live Steamers Museum, 5202 Zoo Dr., L.A., (323) 662-8030; www.lals.org or www.carolwood.org.
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