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Since the reopening of the railroad back in December 2022, Lilly Belle has since been mated with its 200 series coaches, which are the former show train coaches. However there was one time in October 2023 where it pulled the 300 coaches.

Severn Lamb also built the #4 Eureka steam locomotive at Disneyland Paris. The first three were built by Hugh Phillips. The Eureka steam locomotive is most likely the last Severn Lamb steam locomotive still in operation. At PortAventura in Spain, they used to have Severn Lamb steam locomotives...

On the topic of Severn Lamb; the other locomotives that operate at Disneyland Paris and Hong Kong Disneyland also don't have Severn Lamb builder's plates. Let's start with Hong Kong. In a video released by Michael E. Moriarty, if you take a closer look at the builder's plate, it appears to say...

They definitely loosened the bell on Walter since then.

The only major things I’m seeing right now is that No. 1 and 3 had their smokestack heights adjusted. Nos. 2 and 4 shouldn’t need height adjustment as they seem to fit under the tunnel fine.

I just realized…oh well if anyone else can answer the questions I have, I’ll be happy to hear what you have to say.

I know that the Severn Lamb locomotive is the only locomotive that received replica Baldwin builder plates with the serial number 14358. Were the Hugh Phillips locomotives supposed to have these as well? Instead I see APPAVE numbers on the side of those, as well as on the Severn Lamb engine...

Just another thing that hit me: is Strasburg the one who made the new boilers for the locomotives? And are there any differences between the new and old boilers?

Here’s also the images that Steve Broggie shared of Roger testing.

Lol who knows if Disneyland will ever demand to get the original bell back. I mean they didn’t use the bell in the video.

It’s not a big deal for me either. To me, #1 and #3 were always on the taller side so they had to be lowered. But it's actually kinda funny that #3 needed smokestack height adjustments because Nos. 2 and 3 have the same smokestacks. Not sure if #2 underwent a smokestack height adjustment during...

Here's a video of Roger E. Broggie testing. PS: The Lonergan is still there! However if Walter is still wearing the Crosby, it could be hard to tell the two apart. No bell yet; just hope they didn't pull a E.P. Ripley.

Used to have a lighter shade of green. It was repainted dark green during the overhaul; this is a very similar (if not the same) shade of green on Lilly Belle. When the railroad first opened, this was Roger's paint scheme.

This should hopefully mean it will return soon. I actually love the opening day scheme as well. In fact, call me crazy, but I’ll take this over the other paint scheme it had. I wonder if the other three locomotives are currently painted in their original color schemes or an updated one.

It was done on purpose along with the removal of the brakes; steam locomotives in the 1880s didn't necessarily have those, instead relying on a brake car. That's why only the coaches have brakes. However some grades on the WDWRR are pretty steep so maybe sanders should have been left in place.

Is WDW the only one whose trains are operated by Main Street Ops? I was thinking Disneyland may have the same thing.

For Walter's whistles: since the YouTuber who posted that video of the Baldwin whistle has deleted his channel due to issues I cannot address at this time, here is another video of what it sounded like: It recently switched whistles AGAIN. This time it is supposedly wearing the Crosby that was...

Oh yeah Disneyrailfan1996 influenced my initial Tweetsie statement (on the Walter overhaul forum). New thing for me: never fall for whatever others say easily.

...yeah ignore that I said that. I edited the original reply.

Someone on YouTube said that once, but I don't remember. I'm certain Tweetsie did fine, but I'm still wondering how Lilly ended up with the issues that forced it into welcome show duty for many years.