Visiting the CK Holliday at Fullerton
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- In this episode, I visit the Disneyland Railroad engine no. 1 CK Holliday, after her refurb in 2015. With crew interviews and before-and-after comparisons, as well as simulator footage.
Here’s where you can see the new speedometer I mentioned in the video: atomicredhead....
More at ckhollidayplans...
Note that the shape of the top edge (side view) of the tender has a downward slope to it. It's characteristic to that (1870-1880s) period, but all previous Holliday tenders had a straight top edge to the tender. This must be a 100% new tender as part of the rebuild.
I went to Fullerton train days in 2017 and 2018, I was lucky enough to blow the whistle on the C. K. Holiday and the Ernest S Marsh, that's the closest to steam locomotives I've ever really gotten.
Great video, Preston and very informative!
Thanks! Nothing you didn't already know though :)
watching this for the 10th time while steaming her up from cold and no pressure in the sim!
Subbed! Excellent work. Is the change of the whistle a new one or was it just loose?
Thanks! The whistle sounded different because it was running on low pressure compressed air. When the engine is steamed up, the hot steam and the higher pressure gives the whistle a louder tone that you'll recognize :)
That was a really great up-close view of the engine! I'm always happy to learn new things about the locomotives. Tell me, will any of this stuff in the new update change your sim?
Hey I never knew Ollie Johnson's engine got to ride around Disneyland, that is so cool! -Sometimes I feel its too bad that the Disneyland Railroad is such a busy railroad because it would be cool for enthusiasts of 3 foot gauge trains to be able to drive their trains around Disneyland, but I suppose Disneyland is private property and not meant to host other locomotive's of train enthusiasts. But maybe it'd be cool to one day see them let other 3 foot gauge engines take a ride around.
Yea, Lasseter got to run Ollie's engine in the park for a special party/occasion. I guess you could do it too if you're a Pixar CEO and have a narrow gauge engine :) Here's the article referenced in the video: ohmy.disney.com/insider/2014/11/20/a-celebration-of-disney-trains-john-lasseter-recalls-a-magical-disneyland-memory-with-disney-legend-ollie-johnston/
Not sure if I'll go through and make an alternative model in the sim. Under the surface, it's really a bit of a different engine. For now, I'm content with the simulator being a sort of "interactive museum" of the original engine.
Highball Sim Thanks for the link, that was a great read. Yeah there's no reason to create an alternate sim. For me, driving a simulation of the 1955 version in the comfort of my home is the bees knees. I'm probably going to be your very first customer in line when you release the sim. lol.
Highball Sim Hey Preston, since you did a lot of research into the Disneyland Railroad, I wanted to know if the locomotive's driver wheels are fitted with steel tires or if they are a solid piece? I know that in the decades after the 1900's larger locomotives had steel tires and even modern diesel engines have steel tires.
On another note, when it comes to your sim, what are the consequences if you mistreat the engines? Like what if I let the boiler run dry on your sim, does the engine blow up or something? Or what if I never perform a blow down, what happens to the engines in your sim?
All steam locomotive drivers - including the Disneyland engines' - are fitted with steel tires over cast iron wheel centers, and are "shrunk" on to the wheel centers by heating them up before installing them.
Steve DeGaetano Oh cool...wow that must mean the tires are changed out by the Disneyland roundhouse people, that's a dangerous job.
Lol I've always ran the trains at 150 instead of 125. I did that because I 1 experimented with the different pressures and 150 worked the best and 2 Disneyland uses 150 that and it's one more step for me steaming up which is redoing the safety valves to 180 and 200 psi.
Edit I just recently learned how to steam C.K Holiday up and now (when covid ends) when I go to Disneyland and see it I'm probably going to say ''hey I know how to steam up that train"
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Will there be both versions of this engine, post and pre rebuild, or just as built 1955?
For now, just the original 1955 configuration. Others are possible in the future... depending on interests and popularity.
@@highballsim4539 I would love to see the different versions of all the trains as they go through restorations. Also is there an official release date on the new map?