Actually I think that scar was right about how Tony Baxter basically killed of Western River Expedition and not Pirates. Apparantly Tony Baxter worked on the model with Marc Davis and they were going to try to put in the train ride first and then WRE later. However, Tony was focused on the train ride and Marc on WRE. Later when WDW attendance went up some higher ups came to see some of the attractions that were put on hold. At first they liked it with both the train and WRE and were going to build that, but then I think that Tony came out and said how he hated the idea of a plain train ride, and how he would do it. Apparently, the higher ups liked Tonys idea a lot and decided to have it built as a stand alone attraction without WRE.