Trains
The railroad has four different locomotives and four sets of passenger cars. The four locomotives are narrow-gauge locomotives, built between 1916 and 1928 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for Ferrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán in Mexico.
A regular train consists of a steam locomotive, tender, and five passenger coaches with a total capacity of approximately 365 passengers and 2 wheelchairs. The tender has a capacity for 1,837 US gallons (6,954 L) of water and 664 US gallons (2,514 L) of fuel oil. The tender must be topped off with water every three or four trips (or circuits) around the park, which is done at the water tower located at Fantasyland Station (prior to the construction of Splash Mountain, the water tower was located at the original Frontierland Station).
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Famous quotes containing the word trains:
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—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
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—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)
“In this country, you never pull the emergency brake, even when there is an emergency. It is imperative that the trains run on schedule.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)