Theoretically, could you remove the plug, and attach more piping (and a valve) then secure it in place? Or would you need to put new piping in? I imagine just removing the plug and leaving it that way would cause sand to get all over the place.
Correct. Opening the pipe where it is now would shoot sand from the height of the running board all inside of the rails. Huge mess.
My guess would be new piping. I say that because the current piping could strictly be decorative pipe and not intended to be functional. But if it does happen to be functional, then adding an extension is definitely possible.
I think the tender has a cleaner look without the brown stripe on the tender wing. As far as the cab windows go, I like how the pinstripes on the side windows are white instead of yellow. The only thing I would change about Walter’s new paint scheme is painting the wheels to the original dark red to match the boiler while keeping the new pinstripes on the counterweights.Not to mention Walter is missing the yellow pinstriping on the front of his cab, the bottom of his steam dome, and the brown top on his tender wing...
I'll admit that the brown stripe on Walter's tender wing looked way too thick:
Yay!!! That’s great news!
Indeed it is. Even before Roy was shipped off, Lilly and Walter have been the primary workhorses over the last several months. Glad one of them can finally get some much needed downtime.Yay!!! That’s great news!
So happy that Roger is back. Which other locomotive is running alongside Roger?
Lilly
I hate how this discussion erased the Walt Disney World News Today website's initials...If you venture over to the dark side‘s Twitter (X) account they have a video with a misspelled name…
Cheers to Strasburg to for their hard work and completing yet another overhaul. For those who don’t know, Theme park trains are NOT under FRA jurisdiction because they are not a part of a general railroad system nor do they have tracks that connect to one. Disney’s trains have been under state jurisdiction for the last 3 decades.
No one had suggested otherwise. However, due to the RCID being dissolved and the nature of the newly formed CFTOD, there is now a slightly higher than zero chance that the WDWRR could fall under FRA jurisdiction, and it’s all because of one little section of the line. I doubt anything will come of it, but it’ll be interesting to watch and see.
There was a rumor at one point that stated that Dollywood is apparently under the FRA jurisdiction. At least that’s what someone on Facebook told me.
I can’t imagine they are. Disney would have more reason to be than Dollywood.
I’ve heard that rumor about all the parks with trains that used to be a part of narrow gauge railroad systems, but they’re not. Dollywood owns World War 2 era locomotives but no, they’re not under FRA jurisdiction.
There are narrow gauge lines that are part of the FRA (fun fact, there is still an international narrow gauge line - the White Pass & Yukon operates from Skagway Alaska into British Columbia) and there are standard gauge lines that are not (the Henry Ford Greenfield Village is a great example… and one with a Disney connection
The biggest reason why I’d prefer the original emerald green over the Tweetsie green. It’s easier to see the difference between the Emerald Green and Lilly’s Hunter Green in person compared to looking at photos and videos on electronics.
