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After financing for Disneyland was secured and all of the parcels of land at the Anaheim site were purchased, construction of the park and its railroad began in August 1954. [18] In order to cut costs, a sponsorship deal was arranged with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF), and when it was finalized on March 29, 1955, the DRR was ...
The Viewliner Train of Tomorrow was a 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow-gauge, miniature train that once operated alongside portions of the Disneyland Railroad main line. [1]The attraction commenced operation on June 10, 1957 and was billed by Disneyland as "the fastest miniature train in the world."
New Jersey Southern RR and connections. The New Jersey Southern Railroad was a railroad that started in 1854. It would continue under this name until the 1870s as a separate company and the lines that it had constructed or run continued to be run in the New Jersey Southern name until the early 2000s.
SRNJ contracted with the county in 1995 to take over operations on the 18.6 miles (29.9 km) route (plus a one-mile spur in Salem) from the West Jersey Railroad Co. [6] which was awarded the initial contract by the county in 1988. [7] Between 2009 and 2012 U.S. Rail Corporation operated the Salem line.
Rail transport can be found in every theme park resort property owned or licensed by Disney Experiences, one of the three business segments of the Walt Disney Company. [3] [4] The origins of Disney theme park rail transport can be traced back to Walt Disney himself and his personal fondness for railroads, who insisted that they be included in the first Disney park, the original Disneyland (a ...
West Jersey Chapter-NRHS The Philadelphia Marlton and Medford Railroad Co. 1881 - 1931 (1973) West Jersey Chapter-NRHS The Trains to America's Playground (1988) Morning Sun Books Inc. Morning Sun Books Inc Pennsylvania-Reading Seashores Lines In Color (1996) ISBN 978-1-878887-57-3
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Retlaw Enterprises, originally Walt Disney Miniature Railroad, then Walt Disney, Inc. (WDI), and then WED Enterprises (WED), was a privately held company owned by the heirs of entertainment mogul Walt Disney. [3] Disney formed the company to control the rights to his name and to manage two Disneyland attractions that he personally owned. The ...