Just wondering what's gonna be going on with the Liberty Belle. Cosmetics, boiler work? Or just a rest. Anybody got any info? And I'm talking about the steamboat not get confused with the Lillie Belle
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Liberty Belle refurb
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Seabasealpha1
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As a side note I enjoy the name/picture... As you can imagine, I'm reading/hearing everything in that voice...
Aye that be true
ford91exploder
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Aye matey her frame be cracked and her boiler needed much work, The scurvy crew at the Strasburg RR fixed her up like new they did, Arrr did a job that my jolly mates that we can be proud of.
LIBERTY Belle
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Not enough RUM!
Nastory4
Active Member
That's funny as I did the same.
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
She be refurbished stem to stern every february matey!
It's gonna be closed for refurb Aug1-Aug7.
Ah ok, thanks both of you. A week hardly seems worthy of the word refurbishment, but Disney is Disney.
Haha yeah. The fact that its only a week makes me think its nothing super major.
Seabasealpha1
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You guys ever see that episode of Disneyland where they showed the "opening" of Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland? You know, the one where the pirates hijack the Columbia and steal the women folk, crack open a barrel o' rum, and laugh heartily?
Makes me wish there was a Columbia at MK. I'd love to see this happen once a year! Were there ever any plans for a Columbia-esque ship at MK? I do know there was (at one time) two stern-wheelers...
Makes me wish there was a Columbia at MK. I'd love to see this happen once a year! Were there ever any plans for a Columbia-esque ship at MK? I do know there was (at one time) two stern-wheelers...
Haha yeah I have that on my Curse of the Black Pearl DVD. Something similar to the Columbia would be cool. I could be wrong, but I think that DL rivers of America might be wider than WDW so that allows them to have two ships. WDW would have to do a major overhaul on the river if it were to happen and build a new dock for it.
No, missed that.
I'll say this about the Columbia era: judging from the bunks they're showing, those were some tiny people compared to today!
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Piratical talk aside since it's a live steam boiler it requires periodic inspections and maintenance of valve packings and other things unique to live steam so it's usually down in Feb and sometimes August. We'd need one of the operating engineer CM's to give us the details of what happens as steam boilers are outside of my expertise other than knowing they require routine inspections.