Railroad

Jessica.stw

Jessica.stw

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Any rumblings of a reopening date? It is my husband's favorite and I was hoping for a reopen by September but as the days tick on it's seeming less likely without even any rumors
 
Walt Disney1955

Walt Disney1955

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Love the WDW Railroad. A very underrated relaxing ride. Is it still down for now because of Tron? I am just wondering how they can't work around it? Serious question, I am not familiar with how much Tron impacts the railroad.
 
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Raxel7851

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Tron has affected the RR. If you look at some of the construction pictures, it goes directly through Tron. I believe they are building some kind of walled pathway thru it for the train to pass thru. I’m sure someone here has better info than I do.
 
JIMINYCR

JIMINYCR

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Big Phil said:
Love the WDW Railroad. A very underrated relaxing ride. Is it still down for now because of Tron? I am just wondering how they can't work around it? Serious question, I am not familiar with how much Tron impacts the railroad.
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They needed to do construction in the area for the infrastructure for the Tron build which encompassed the land the train ran through. The tracks the RR had run on have been pulled up and new tracks and composite ties meant to last longer are being laid down now, rerouting the trains route. The idea is for the RR to pass through the Tron area. So for the near future the train will not be running. There has been conjecture from some bloggers/posters that the RR may start up sometime to begin to run between the Main Street station and Fronteirland or possibly to the Fantasyland station.
 
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Raxel7851

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JIMINYCR said:
They needed to do construction in the area for the infrastructure for the Tron build which encompassed the land the train ran through. The tracks the RR had run on have been pulled up and new tracks and composite ties meant to last longer are being laid down now, rerouting the trains route. The idea is for the RR to pass through the Tron area. So for the near future the train will not be running. There has been conjecture from some bloggers/posters that the RR may start up sometime to begin to run between the Main Street station and Fronteirland or possibly to the Fantasyland station.
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Thanks @JIMINYCR !!!!
 
TrainsOfDisney

TrainsOfDisney

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JIMINYCR said:
There has been conjecture from some bloggers/posters that the RR may start up sometime to begin to run between the Main Street station and Fronteirland or possibly to the Fantasyland station.
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The railroad could be up and running pretty soon.... will take a few weeks of training / testing once it’s done but it’s definitely getting close to possibly being ready.

If they had wanted to run in shuttle modes, they could have been doing that the whole time.
 
JIMINYCR

JIMINYCR

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TrainsOfDisney said:
The railroad could be up and running pretty soon.... will take a few weeks of training / testing once it’s done but it’s definitely getting close to possibly being ready.

If they had wanted to run in shuttle modes, they could have been doing that the whole time.
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Yes they could have but they didn’t. Is that from a cost saving plan? Have the engineers been in place all this time or were they furloughed for this extended time the RR has been down?
 
DisAl

DisAl

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JIMINYCR said:
Yes they could have but they didn’t. Is that from a cost saving plan? Have the engineers been in place all this time or were they furloughed for this extended time the RR has been down?
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One reason for not running it in shuttle mode was that they rebuilt most if not all of the track, replacing the wooden ties with the new composite ties.
 
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Raxel7851

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Goofyernmost said:
They built the trans-continental railroad in less time than this and they had to cut through mountains, bedrock and across rivers to do it.
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Actually, it took 6 years to build the Trans-Continental Railroad. From 1863-1869. It was built in 3 segments. Admittedly it was an ENORMOUS Challenge and Endeavor, but I don’t think we’re quite at the 6 year mark yet. Maybe a more appropriate construction example would be the Empire State Building. It took a mere 1 year and 45 days to build that. This Tron thing is certainly no Empire State Building.
 

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