Disneyland Prospectus

[Unfortunate Bystander]

http://boingboing.net/2014/05/20/disney ... ectus.html

To bring this on-topic, the train is going counter-clockwise.

[Unfortunate Bystander]

Ok, I learned something. Apparently the two original trains travelled in opposite directions on the loop passing at the Main St station, or so I've read...

[Steve DeGaetano]

Ok, I learned something. Apparently the two original trains travelled in opposite directions on the loop passing at the Main St station, or so I've read...

What you read is incorrect. Where did you read that?

They travelled in the same direction, "leapfrogging" at sidings located at Main Street and Frontierland.

[Unfortunate Bystander]

Can't believe everything you read I guess. Yeah, no kidding...

[Steve DeGaetano]

The Ryman drawing in the Prospectus has any number of things that were never built or operated as depicted--the counter-clockwise trains (and riverboat) among them.

I still wonder where folks got the idea the trains ran in opposite directions. Is that from Wikipedia?

[Dave Van]

I like the expanded emphasis on trains in the concept drawing. Cool stuff...

[Just a fan]

A real, actual roundhouse with turntable would have been awesome. And how about the relocated Carolwood Pacific running through Lilliputian Land? Oh what might have been!

[TFN5459]

A real, actual roundhouse with turntable would have been awesome. And how about the relocated Carolwood Pacific running through Lilliputian Land? Oh what might have been!

That would have been awesome, though it's odd for me to see Adventureland on the opposite side of the park roughly where Space Mountain and the dioramas are today, would have been a jarring transition into Tomorrowland

[Steve DeGaetano]

I still wonder where folks got the idea the trains ran in opposite directions. Is that from Wikipedia?

Ah. Found a reference here. Of course, they also call the handcar a "pump trolley."

[Dave Van]

Did they also reference the Horse Buggy with flanged wheels????