Qualla: Disneyland Railroad https://qualla.com/disneyland-railroad en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/h/0/disneyland-railroad-wp/6308-anaheimdisneyland-nw-to-s.jpg Qualla: Disneyland Railroad https://qualla.com/disneyland-railroad Disneyland Railroad: Introduction https://qualla.com/disneyland-railroad/ Photo credit Jeremy Thompson, CC BY 2.0. The word Retlaw appears twice in the names of the original Disneyland Railroad trains. Spell it backward, and you have Walter - a quiet signature from a man whose lifelong obsession with trains shaped the very bones of the Magic Kingdom. As a teenager, Walt Disney sold newspapers and candy as a news butcher on the Missouri Pacific Railway. Decades later, after polo injuries forced him to find a calmer hobby, he built an elaborate railroad in his own backyard - the Carolwood Pacific - complete with a miniature steam locomotive named after his wife Lillian. That backyard railroad would become the template for something far grander.

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]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/h/0/disneyland-railroad-wp/9qh0-disneyland-railroad-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Disneyland Railroad: From Backyard to Berm https://qualla.com/disneyland-railroad/ Photo credit Patrick Pelletier, CC BY-SA 3.0. Walt Disney's Carolwood Pacific Railroad entertained weekend visitors until 1953, when a guest drove the Lilly Belle locomotive too fast around a curve, derailing it and injuring a child. Disney shut down his backyard railroad that day. But Roger Broggie, head of the Walt Disney ...

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]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/h/0/disneyland-railroad-wp/9qh0-disneyland-railroad-from-backyard-to-berm.mp3 0:06 2 full Disneyland Railroad: Opening Day and the California Governor https://qualla.com/disneyland-railroad/ Photo credit HarshLight from San Jose, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0. On July 17, 1955, Walt Disney himself drove locomotive No. 2 into Main Street Station with California Governor Goodwin Knight and Santa Fe Railway president Fred Gurley riding in the cab. Art Linkletter and a young Ronald Reagan waited on the platform as television cameras broadc...

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]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/h/0/disneyland-railroad-wp/9qh0-disneyland-railroad-opening-day-and-the-california-governor.mp3 0:06 3 full Disneyland Railroad: Locomotives with History https://qualla.com/disneyland-railroad/ Photo credit HarshLight from San Jose, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0. Disney initially wanted to buy existing miniature locomotives, but when collector Billy Jones refused to sell, Roger Broggie convinced him they could scale up the design of the backyard Lilly Belle instead. Two locomotives were built from scratch; three more came from unexpected ...

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]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/h/0/disneyland-railroad-wp/9qh0-disneyland-railroad-locomotives-with-history.mp3 0:06 4 full Disneyland Railroad: The Grand Circle Tour https://qualla.com/disneyland-railroad/ Photo credit User:Jonnyboyca, Public domain. The eighteen-minute journey around Disneyland passes through two remarkable dioramas. The Grand Canyon Diorama, inaugurated in 1958 and blessed by a 96-year-old Hopi chief named Nevangnewa, features a painted canvas backdrop claimed as the longest diorama in the world, accompanie...

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]]> Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/h/0/disneyland-railroad-wp/9qh0-disneyland-railroad-the-grand-circle-tour.mp3 0:06 5 full Disneyland Railroad: Still Running https://qualla.com/disneyland-railroad/ Photo credit HarshLight from San Jose, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0. The Disneyland Railroad switched from diesel to biodiesel made from recycled cooking oil in 2009. It closed temporarily in 2016 for Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge construction, reopening with a new section called Columbia Gorge featuring the line's only left-hand turn. The original rou...

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