Rivers of America (plus Railroad & Dioramas) Re-Imagineered 2017

TP2000

TP2000

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Andrew M said:
Absolutely love the attention to detail from a Structural Engineering standpoint on these bridges. This one looks like an exact replica of a 19th Century Wooden Truss, like this one from 1881 on the Durango & Silverton in Colorado.View attachment 206790
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Thanks. I assumed that unusual trestle architecture had a historical reference point, and that a train buff would be here shortly to fill us in. It is a handsome looking trestle.

It's just a shame Joe Rohde or some other CELEBRITY IMAGINEER wasn't blogging about the train trestle research trip they made to Colorado. There's a Ritz-Carlton in Denver that Rohde could have used as his research base camp! :cool:
 
George Lucas on a Bench

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"When the Disneyland Railroad returns this summer, it will transport guests back to the 19th century in a way it never has before. These absolutely incredible authentic wooden trusses, thundering picturesque waterfalls and astonishing towering rock formations will make you believe you've traveled back in time."
 
jmuboy

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Andrew M said:
Absolutely love the attention to detail from a Structural Engineering standpoint on these bridges. This one looks like an exact replica of a 19th Century Wooden Truss, like this one from 1881 on the Durango & Silverton in Colorado.View attachment 206790
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Walt would love this trestle. I certainty do too. so excited for the positive changes we are getting for only giving up 10% of our river.
 
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Kira Nerys said:
"When the Disneyland Railroad returns this summer, it will transport guests back to the 19th century in a way it never has before. These absolutely incredible authentic wooden trusses, thundering picturesque waterfalls and astonishing towering rock formations will make you believe you've traveled back in time."
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Ok, that was funny.
 
nevol

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And the entrance from Pacific Wharf is similar to natural arches all over the south west, but most clearly emulates the "natural bridge" in Virginia that was painted/made famous by Edwin Church in the 1850s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natur...win_Church_-_The_Natural_Bridge,_Virginia.jpg
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This was painted at the height of the popularity of picturesque paintings attempting to capture the natural Sublime. Since they obviously wanted the cadillac range to be "sublime," emulating a piece of picturesque/sublime history makes sense. Recreating that sublime-inducing passageway that is both photogenic/picturesque from the wharf and breathtaking to experience duplicates the impact of that image and that natural landscape, and where it falls short for being a duplicate and being manmade/in a theme park, it picks up some sublime steam in terms of the technological sublime. Step 1: this is breathtaking (sublime) step 2: its fake. (suppression of the sublime) step 3: I cant believe it isn't real. (appreciation, forgiveness for the fakery) step 4: How the H*** DID THEY DO THAT? (enter the technological sublime/curiosity/disbelief in the power of mankind rather than the power of nature).

step 5: i love this. lets go to sedona soon. nature is so amazing. (newfound appreciation for the technological sublime AND the natural sublime, with the theme park using the technological sublime among other strategies and devices selling you on the natural sublime)
 
TP2000

TP2000

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Kira Nerys said:
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"When the Disneyland Railroad returns this summer, it will transport guests back to the 19th century in a way it never has before. These absolutely incredible authentic wooden trusses, thundering picturesque waterfalls and astonishing towering rock formations will make you believe you've traveled back in time."
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If you could somehow Photoshop into the background a room service waiter delivering a $45 steak sandwich and a $110 bottle of champagne to Rohde's suite at the Denver Ritz-Carlton, after a long afternoon of going to look at a train trestle, that would make this perfect.
 
TP2000

TP2000

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A new video from our lady blogger, taken Friday afternoon while everyone else was focused on the opening of Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT! on the other side of the Resort.

Fascinating to watch all these different techniques used for the finishing touches on the rockwork.

 
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Disney Analyst

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TP2000 said:
A new video from our lady blogger, taken Friday afternoon while everyone else was focused on the opening of Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT! on the other side of the Resort.

Fascinating to watch all these different techniques used for the finishing touches on the rockwork.

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They look so close!
 

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