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Carolwood Pacific Railroad

April 10, 2024

The Carolwood Pacific Railroad (CPRR) was a 7+1⁄4-inch (184 mm) gauge ridable miniature railroad run by Walt Disney in the backyard of his home in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It featured the Lilly Belle, a 1:8-scale live steam locomotive named after Disney's wife, Lillian Disney, and built by the Walt Disney Studios' machine shop. The locomotive made its first test run on December 24, 1949. It pulled a set of freight cars, as well as a caboose that was almost entirely built by Disney himself. It was Disney's lifelong fascination with trains, as well as his interest in miniature models, that led to the creation of the CPRR. The railroad, which became operational in 1950, was 2,615 feet (797 m) long and encircled his house. The backyard railroad attracted visitors to Disney's home; he invited them to ride and occasionally drive his miniature train. In 1953, after an accident occurred in which a guest was injured, the CPRR was closed to the public.

Carolwood Pacific Railroad
The logo for the CPRR
Overview
HeadquartersHolmby Hills, Los Angeles
Dates of operation1950–1953; 71 years ago (1953)
Technical
Track gauge7+1⁄4 in (184 mm)
Length2,615 feet (797 m)

The Carolwood Pacific Railroad inspired Disney to include railroad attractions in the design for the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California. Railroad attractions in Disney theme parks around the world are now commonplace. The barn structure that was used as the railroad's control center is now at the Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum in Los Angeles' Griffith Park. The Lilly Belle, some of the freight cars, and the caboose are now on display at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, California.

History edit

 
The layout of the CPRR

Walt Disney, the owner of the Carolwood Pacific Railroad, was a rail enthusiast.[1][2] As a young boy, he wanted to become a train engineer like his father's cousin, Mike Martin, who drove main-line trains on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.[3][4] Disney's father once worked as part of a track installation crew for the Union Pacific Railroad.[3] As a teenager, Disney worked as a news butcher on the Missouri Pacific Railway, where he sold newspapers, candy, cigars, and other products on trains.[5] He sometimes climbed over the tender and into the locomotive's cab while the train was in motion.[5][6] After he bribed the engineer and fireman with chewing tobacco, they showed him how to operate the locomotive.[5][6]

Disney renewed his interest in trains after injuries forced him to stop playing polo.[7] Seeking a calmer recreational activity, he purchased several Lionel train sets in late 1947.[7] By 1948, his interest in model trains was evolving into an interest in larger, ridable miniature trains after observing the trains and backyard railroad layouts of several hobbyists.[8] These hobbyists included Disney animator Ollie Johnston, who had a ridable miniature railroad; as well as Disney animator Ward Kimball, who owned the full-size, 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge Grizzly Flats Railroad.[8][9]

On June 1, 1949, Disney purchased 5 acres (2.0 ha) of vacant land in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles.[10] The property consisted of a bluff, which was 2 acres (0.8 ha) in size, and a level shelf of land behind it, which Disney named Yensid Valley.[11][12] The word Yensid is Disney spelled backwards.[12] Disney purchased this land to build a new family home with an elaborate backyard railroad behind it.[10] Plans for the railroad's layout included 2,615 feet (797 m) of 7+1⁄4-inch (184 mm) gauge track with eleven switches, as well as gradients, overpasses, a trestle, and an elevated dirt berm.[13][14] The layout would completely surround the house.[14] Disney's wife, Lillian Disney, objected to the plan that part of the layout be built in an area where she intended to plant a flower garden.[14] As a compromise, Disney had an S-curve tunnel built underneath the spot where the garden was eventually planted.[15] Aided by a Walt Disney Studios attorney, Disney had a tongue-in-cheek legal contract written to establish his right to own and operate the railroad's right of way.[16][17] He and his wife signed the contract and their two daughters witnessed it.[16][17] Disney named his railroad Carolwood Pacific Railroad (CPRR) in reference to his address at 355 Carolwood Drive.[10] The railroad eventually cost $50,000, split evenly between its layout and rolling stock.[18]

 
The CPRR's Lilly Belle and caboose on display at the Disneyland Railroad's Main Street, U.S.A. Station in 1993

The railroad featured the Lilly Belle, a 1:8-scale live steam locomotive named after Disney's wife and built by the Walt Disney Studios' machine shop team led by Roger E. Broggie.[19][20] The locomotive's design, chosen by Disney after seeing a smaller locomotive model with the same design at the home of rail historian Gerald M. Best, was based directly on copies of the blueprints for the Central Pacific No. 173, a 4-4-0 steam locomotive rebuilt by the Central Pacific Railroad in 1872.[19] The initials for the Carolwood Pacific Railroad, CPRR, matched the initials for the Central Pacific Railroad, one of the railroads that helped complete the first transcontinental railroad in 1869.[21] Under Broggie's guidance, Disney helped build several parts for the Lilly Belle, including its smokestack and headlamp.[19] Most of the machining was done by Broggie's machine shop team, and the wooden cab was built by Disney personally.[19][22] On December 24, 1949, the Lilly Belle and its tender were first test run on a small loop of track during the studio's Christmas party in front of the staff.[20] The tender could carry up to 3.5 US gallons (13.2 L) of water and 10 pounds (4.5 kg) of coal crushed to scale-sized lumps to fuel the locomotive.[20][23] Disney ran the Lilly Belle on the Carolwood Pacific Railroad for the first time on May 7, 1950.[24][25]

The CPRR's train cars consisted of six cast-metal, wood-grain-patterned gondolas made by the studio's machine shop.[26] There were also two boxcars, two stock cars, a flatcar, and a caboose made of wood from the studio's prop shop.[26] Disney's fascination with miniature models was apparent from the level of detail he applied to the miniature interior of the caboose, which included a calendar hung on the wall, a broom, and a working potbelly stove.[26][27] Except for its frame and trucks, Disney built the entire caboose himself.[26] All of the train cars, except for the caboose, were stored in the CPRR's tunnel when not in use.[23][26]

The CPRR's caboose was stored in a special barn where Disney monitored and controlled the CPRR's track.[12][26] The barn's design was based on a set piece for the 1949 Disney film So Dear to My Heart, and it brought back Disney's childhood memories of a similar barn on his family farm in Marceline, Missouri.[28][29] The barn had a centralized traffic control board, which had several lights designed to indicate the presence of trains along the railroad's route.[12] The CPRR's switches could also be electrically controlled from this board.[12]

Articles about the CPRR appeared in several magazines, including the September 1951 issue of Look magazine.[18][30] These articles attracted visitors interested in the CPRR to the home of Disney, who invited them to ride and occasionally drive his miniature train.[18][31] With a tractive effort of more than 2,000 pounds-force (8,900 N), the Lilly Belle could pull a train with up to 12 adult passengers.[23] Due to its lack of brakes, the locomotive was set in reverse if it ever needed to stop quickly.[20][32] In early 1953, a visitor drove the Lilly Belle too fast along a curve, causing it to derail.[33] As a result, the Lilly Belle fell on its side, broke its whistle, and released a jet of steam across the ground.[33] A five-year-old girl ran through the steam jet, which left minor burns on her legs.[33] As a result of this incident, Disney, fearing the possibility of future accidents, closed down the CPRR and stored the locomotive in the studio's machine shop.[33][34] Disney removed the Carolwood Pacific Railroad's track in 1964.[35]

Influences edit

 
The Disneyland Railroad's C.K. Holliday locomotive is very similar in appearance to the CPRR's Lilly Belle locomotive

Walt Disney credited the Carolwood Pacific Railroad with inspiring the creation of Disneyland in Anaheim, California.[36] In one early concept for the park, the CPRR was included as an attraction, in which its train would carry passengers past miniature towns and settings.[37] The Casey Jr. Circus Train, a different ridable miniature railroad that travels past miniature scenes of animated Disney films, is one of Disneyland's original attractions.[38][39] Another early design for the park included a narrow-gauge steam railroad encircling it, a feature which was retained in the park's final design.[40][41] Disneyland, and the Disneyland Railroad encircling the park, opened on July 17, 1955.[42][43] The Disneyland Railroad's No. 1 locomotive, the C.K. Holliday, bears a strong resemblance to the CPRR's Lilly Belle, since their designs were based on the same blueprints.[44] There are also steam railroads in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida; Tokyo Disneyland in Japan; and Disneyland Park near Paris.[45][46][47]

Copies of the blueprints for the CPRR's Lilly Belle were sold to model railroad hobbyists through a company named Walt Disney Miniature Railroad, formed by Disney in 1950 as a legally separate entity from Walt Disney Productions.[18][48] After that company evolved into Walt Disney, Inc., in 1952 and had its name changed to WED Enterprises in 1953, it developed rides and attractions for Disneyland and later Walt Disney World.[18][49] In 1965, Walt Disney Productions purchased WED Enterprises, and in 1986 changed its name to Walt Disney Imagineering.[50] According to Los Angeles magazine, the CPRR's barn has been referred to as the "birthplace of Imagineering".[51]

As well as inspiring rail attractions at Disney theme parks, the CPRR became the inspiration for the 1951 Disney animated short film Out of Scale, in which Donald Duck is portrayed running a ridable miniature railroad in his backyard.[52] The train of the CPRR also appeared in several Disney television specials in the 1950s.[53][54] The Walt Disney World Railroad's Fantasyland Station area is nicknamed Carolwood Park, paying tribute to the CPRR.[55][56]

Preservation edit

 
Walt Disney's Carolwood Barn is preserved at the Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum

In 1965, Walt Disney donated 1,500 feet (457 m) of the Carolwood Pacific Railroad's track, as well as the railroad's trestle, to the Los Angeles Live Steamers, a group of miniature steam train enthusiasts.[35][57] Disney was a charter member of that group.[12] The completion of the CPRR's track installation at the Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum in Los Angeles' Griffith Park was celebrated on October 22, 1966, and the route utilizing that track became known as the Disney Loop.[35] This event occurred a few weeks before Disney's death on December 15, 1966.[58] In 1968, Lillian Disney donated the rest of the CPRR's track to the Los Angeles Live Steamers.[59][60] The original CPRR track on the Disney Loop has since been removed and replaced with newer, more durable track.[60]

After Lillian Disney died in 1997, the Disney residence, including the area where the CPRR was located, was put up for sale.[15] Mexican investor Gabriel Brener, who bought the property in 1998, demolished the original house due to issues with lead paint, lead piping, asbestos, and a weak foundation.[60] The CPRR's tunnel was still in place in 2013.[15] In 2014, the property was sold to an unknown buyer.[60]

In 1999, Walt Disney's Carolwood Barn, the CPRR's former control center, was relocated to the Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum.[61][62] Morgan "Bill" Evans, the original landscaper of the Disney residence and several Disney theme parks, arranged for Walt Disney Imagineering to provide a landscaping plan for the barn's new site.[61] On July 19, 1999, Diane Disney Miller, Disney's daughter, participated in the rededication ceremony for the barn.[61]

Since 2009, the CPRR's Lilly Belle, some of the freight cars, and the caboose have been on display at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, California.[63] There are also two pieces of CPRR rolling stock on display inside the Carolwood Pacific Railroad Room in the Boulder Ridge Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge within Walt Disney World.[64]

See also edit

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The Carolwood Pacific Railroad CPRR was a 7 1 4 inch 184 mm gauge ridable miniature railroad run by Walt Disney in the backyard of his home in the Holmby Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles California It featured the Lilly Belle a 1 8 scale live steam locomotive named after Disney s wife Lillian Disney and built by the Walt Disney Studios machine shop The locomotive made its first test run on December 24 1949 It pulled a set of freight cars as well as a caboose that was almost entirely built by Disney himself It was Disney s lifelong fascination with trains as well as his interest in miniature models that led to the creation of the CPRR The railroad which became operational in 1950 was 2 615 feet 797 m long and encircled his house The backyard railroad attracted visitors to Disney s home he invited them to ride and occasionally drive his miniature train In 1953 after an accident occurred in which a guest was injured the CPRR was closed to the public Carolwood Pacific RailroadThe logo for the CPRROverviewHeadquartersHolmby Hills Los AngelesDates of operation1950 1953 71 years ago 1953 TechnicalTrack gauge7 1 4 in 184 mm Length2 615 feet 797 m The Carolwood Pacific Railroad inspired Disney to include railroad attractions in the design for the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim California Railroad attractions in Disney theme parks around the world are now commonplace The barn structure that was used as the railroad s control center is now at the Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum in Los Angeles Griffith Park The Lilly Belle some of the freight cars and the caboose are now on display at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco California Contents 1 History 2 Influences 3 Preservation 4 See also 5 References 6 Bibliography 7 External linksHistory edit nbsp The layout of the CPRRWalt Disney the owner of the Carolwood Pacific Railroad was a rail enthusiast 1 2 As a young boy he wanted to become a train engineer like his father s cousin Mike Martin who drove main line trains on the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway 3 4 Disney s father once worked as part of a track installation crew for the Union Pacific Railroad 3 As a teenager Disney worked as a news butcher on the Missouri Pacific Railway where he sold newspapers candy cigars and other products on trains 5 He sometimes climbed over the tender and into the locomotive s cab while the train was in motion 5 6 After he bribed the engineer and fireman with chewing tobacco they showed him how to operate the locomotive 5 6 Disney renewed his interest in trains after injuries forced him to stop playing polo 7 Seeking a calmer recreational activity he purchased several Lionel train sets in late 1947 7 By 1948 his interest in model trains was evolving into an interest in larger ridable miniature trains after observing the trains and backyard railroad layouts of several hobbyists 8 These hobbyists included Disney animator Ollie Johnston who had a ridable miniature railroad as well as Disney animator Ward Kimball who owned the full size 3 ft 914 mm narrow gauge Grizzly Flats Railroad 8 9 On June 1 1949 Disney purchased 5 acres 2 0 ha of vacant land in the Holmby Hills area of Los Angeles 10 The property consisted of a bluff which was 2 acres 0 8 ha in size and a level shelf of land behind it which Disney named Yensid Valley 11 12 The word Yensid is Disney spelled backwards 12 Disney purchased this land to build a new family home with an elaborate backyard railroad behind it 10 Plans for the railroad s layout included 2 615 feet 797 m of 7 1 4 inch 184 mm gauge track with eleven switches as well as gradients overpasses a trestle and an elevated dirt berm 13 14 The layout would completely surround the house 14 Disney s wife Lillian Disney objected to the plan that part of the layout be built in an area where she intended to plant a flower garden 14 As a compromise Disney had an S curve tunnel built underneath the spot where the garden was eventually planted 15 Aided by a Walt Disney Studios attorney Disney had a tongue in cheek legal contract written to establish his right to own and operate the railroad s right of way 16 17 He and his wife signed the contract and their two daughters witnessed it 16 17 Disney named his railroad Carolwood Pacific Railroad CPRR in reference to his address at 355 Carolwood Drive 10 The railroad eventually cost 50 000 split evenly between its layout and rolling stock 18 nbsp The CPRR s Lilly Belle and caboose on display at the Disneyland Railroad s Main Street U S A Station in 1993The railroad featured the Lilly Belle a 1 8 scale live steam locomotive named after Disney s wife and built by the Walt Disney Studios machine shop team led by Roger E Broggie 19 20 The locomotive s design chosen by Disney after seeing a smaller locomotive model with the same design at the home of rail historian Gerald M Best was based directly on copies of the blueprints for the Central Pacific No 173 a 4 4 0 steam locomotive rebuilt by the Central Pacific Railroad in 1872 19 The initials for the Carolwood Pacific Railroad CPRR matched the initials for the Central Pacific Railroad one of the railroads that helped complete the first transcontinental railroad in 1869 21 Under Broggie s guidance Disney helped build several parts for the Lilly Belle including its smokestack and headlamp 19 Most of the machining was done by Broggie s machine shop team and the wooden cab was built by Disney personally 19 22 On December 24 1949 the Lilly Belle and its tender were first test run on a small loop of track during the studio s Christmas party in front of the staff 20 The tender could carry up to 3 5 US gallons 13 2 L of water and 10 pounds 4 5 kg of coal crushed to scale sized lumps to fuel the locomotive 20 23 Disney ran the Lilly Belle on the Carolwood Pacific Railroad for the first time on May 7 1950 24 25 The CPRR s train cars consisted of six cast metal wood grain patterned gondolas made by the studio s machine shop 26 There were also two boxcars two stock cars a flatcar and a caboose made of wood from the studio s prop shop 26 Disney s fascination with miniature models was apparent from the level of detail he applied to the miniature interior of the caboose which included a calendar hung on the wall a broom and a working potbelly stove 26 27 Except for its frame and trucks Disney built the entire caboose himself 26 All of the train cars except for the caboose were stored in the CPRR s tunnel when not in use 23 26 The CPRR s caboose was stored in a special barn where Disney monitored and controlled the CPRR s track 12 26 The barn s design was based on a set piece for the 1949 Disney film So Dear to My Heart and it brought back Disney s childhood memories of a similar barn on his family farm in Marceline Missouri 28 29 The barn had a centralized traffic control board which had several lights designed to indicate the presence of trains along the railroad s route 12 The CPRR s switches could also be electrically controlled from this board 12 Articles about the CPRR appeared in several magazines including the September 1951 issue of Look magazine 18 30 These articles attracted visitors interested in the CPRR to the home of Disney who invited them to ride and occasionally drive his miniature train 18 31 With a tractive effort of more than 2 000 pounds force 8 900 N the Lilly Belle could pull a train with up to 12 adult passengers 23 Due to its lack of brakes the locomotive was set in reverse if it ever needed to stop quickly 20 32 In early 1953 a visitor drove the Lilly Belle too fast along a curve causing it to derail 33 As a result the Lilly Belle fell on its side broke its whistle and released a jet of steam across the ground 33 A five year old girl ran through the steam jet which left minor burns on her legs 33 As a result of this incident Disney fearing the possibility of future accidents closed down the CPRR and stored the locomotive in the studio s machine shop 33 34 Disney removed the Carolwood Pacific Railroad s track in 1964 35 Influences edit nbsp The Disneyland Railroad s C K Holliday locomotive is very similar in appearance to the CPRR s Lilly Belle locomotiveWalt Disney credited the Carolwood Pacific Railroad with inspiring the creation of Disneyland in Anaheim California 36 In one early concept for the park the CPRR was included as an attraction in which its train would carry passengers past miniature towns and settings 37 The Casey Jr Circus Train a different ridable miniature railroad that travels past miniature scenes of animated Disney films is one of Disneyland s original attractions 38 39 Another early design for the park included a narrow gauge steam railroad encircling it a feature which was retained in the park s final design 40 41 Disneyland and the Disneyland Railroad encircling the park opened on July 17 1955 42 43 The Disneyland Railroad s No 1 locomotive the C K Holliday bears a strong resemblance to the CPRR s Lilly Belle since their designs were based on the same blueprints 44 There are also steam railroads in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World near Orlando Florida Tokyo Disneyland in Japan and Disneyland Park near Paris 45 46 47 Copies of the blueprints for the CPRR s Lilly Belle were sold to model railroad hobbyists through a company named Walt Disney Miniature Railroad formed by Disney in 1950 as a legally separate entity from Walt Disney Productions 18 48 After that company evolved into Walt Disney Inc in 1952 and had its name changed to WED Enterprises in 1953 it developed rides and attractions for Disneyland and later Walt Disney World 18 49 In 1965 Walt Disney Productions purchased WED Enterprises and in 1986 changed its name to Walt Disney Imagineering 50 According to Los Angeles magazine the CPRR s barn has been referred to as the birthplace of Imagineering 51 As well as inspiring rail attractions at Disney theme parks the CPRR became the inspiration for the 1951 Disney animated short film Out of Scale in which Donald Duck is portrayed running a ridable miniature railroad in his backyard 52 The train of the CPRR also appeared in several Disney television specials in the 1950s 53 54 The Walt Disney World Railroad s Fantasyland Station area is nicknamed Carolwood Park paying tribute to the CPRR 55 56 Preservation edit nbsp Walt Disney s Carolwood Barn is preserved at the Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad MuseumIn 1965 Walt Disney donated 1 500 feet 457 m of the Carolwood Pacific Railroad s track as well as the railroad s trestle to the Los Angeles Live Steamers a group of miniature steam train enthusiasts 35 57 Disney was a charter member of that group 12 The completion of the CPRR s track installation at the Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum in Los Angeles Griffith Park was celebrated on October 22 1966 and the route utilizing that track became known as the Disney Loop 35 This event occurred a few weeks before Disney s death on December 15 1966 58 In 1968 Lillian Disney donated the rest of the CPRR s track to the Los Angeles Live Steamers 59 60 The original CPRR track on the Disney Loop has since been removed and replaced with newer more durable track 60 After Lillian Disney died in 1997 the Disney residence including the area where the CPRR was located was put up for sale 15 Mexican investor Gabriel Brener who bought the property in 1998 demolished the original house due to issues with lead paint lead piping asbestos and a weak foundation 60 The CPRR s tunnel was still in place in 2013 15 In 2014 the property was sold to an unknown buyer 60 In 1999 Walt Disney s Carolwood Barn the CPRR s former control center was relocated to the Los Angeles Live Steamers Railroad Museum 61 62 Morgan Bill Evans the original landscaper of the Disney residence and several Disney theme parks arranged for Walt Disney Imagineering to provide a landscaping plan for the barn s new site 61 On July 19 1999 Diane Disney Miller Disney s daughter participated in the rededication ceremony for the barn 61 Since 2009 the CPRR s Lilly Belle some of the freight cars and the caboose have been on display at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco California 63 There are also two pieces of CPRR rolling stock on display inside the Carolwood Pacific Railroad Room in the Boulder Ridge Villas at Disney s Wilderness Lodge within Walt Disney World 64 See also editOlomana locomotive Portals nbsp Disney nbsp Trains nbsp Greater Los AngelesReferences edit Broggie 2014 p 17 Broggie 2014 p 355 a b Broggie 2014 p 35 Amendola 2015 pp 16 17 a b c Broggie 2014 pp 36 37 a b Amendola 2015 pp 23 24 a b Broggie 2014 pp 44 45 a b Broggie 2014 p 99 Amendola 2015 pp 118 119 a b c Broggie 2014 p 109 Broggie 2014 p 108 a b c d e f Broggie 2014 pp 135 136 Broggie 2014 p 112 a b c Broggie 2014 p 115 a b c Brennan Morgan June 9 2013 Exclusive The 90 Million Carolwood Estate Once Owned by Walt Disney Forbes Archived from the original on November 4 2016 Retrieved January 31 2017 a b Broggie 2014 p 7 a b 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