Multiple Errors Corrected Upon receiving email from Steve deGaetano who is a noted DLRR historian made corrections per his recommendations Here s a nice selection Mas as promised The line features automatic block signals not any more Locomotive 2 the flagship flagship Locomotive 1 serviced the Frontierland depot hauling a freight train consisting of cattle cars gondolas numbered 201 207 and a caboose 208 the original freight train only had six cars Hong Kong s however are steam outline locomotives due to the lack of steam knowledge in the country Seriously China was still running main line steam until just a few years ago There were only two train sets on opening day the yellow passenger coaches of the Retlaw 1 train which only stopped at Main Street Station and the red cattle cars gondolas and caboose of the Holiday 2 train it was Retlaw 2 not Holiday 2 The trains were entirely fabricated new in the carpentry shops at the Disney Studios in Burbank they were built on soundstages Even the couplers wheels and trucks were cast new with raised Disneyland 1955 lettering The couplers were not made by Disney and don t have Disneyland lettering A third set of cars train number 300 debuted in 1958 Actually they started out in the 600 series See I m nitpicky Shortly after the diorama s opening in 1958 the 100 train set of clerestory roofed yellow passenger coaches with forward facing seats made famous on the park s opening day broadcast were removed from service and stacked behind the Roundhouse They weren t removed from service completey until 1974 Lilly Belle 106 is not a presidential coach its first official passenger was Japanese Emperor Hirohito if one is so inclined it would be an Imperial Palatial Car Imperial Palatial Car Wha It the combine was traded away and traded again but the new owner was interested only in operating revenue cars which matched I seriously don t know where people come up with this stuff It s just not true the engines that were built at the Disney Studios for the park They were built in the Roundhouse at Disneyland a cylinder blowdown at New Orleans Frontierland Station There s no such thing as a cylinder blowdown the Grand Canyon diorama painted by artist Delmer J Yoakum added to what was once a long tunnel through a backstage service area There was no long tunnel through a backstage service area In 1999 Disney purchased the inoperable Maud L locomotive from the Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky Ohio They didn t puchase it they traded a locomotive for it The Frontierland Station was renovated to become the New Orleans Square station when that section of the park opened in 1966 It wasn t renamed New Orleans Square station until very recently It was donated to Walt Disney himself around 1955 by railroad historian and Disney friend Jerry Best there s no evidence of thisnot even in the Archives This engine was also known to be Walt Disney s personal favorite again this is unsupported A commemorative brass plaque celebrating the Gurley s centennial was mounted in the cab in 1994 there never was a brass plaque in the cab a plastic plaque meant to look like brass was mounted under the engine s running board the conductor uses the same patterns with a button which activates a buzzer in the cab of the locomotive They have bells not buzzers As you can see making these changes can be pretty arduous While the overall article isn t bad it just has too many errors for it to really be considered a reliable source Good luck