The Carolwood Pacific Historical Society and Fort Wilderness

[ynottony99]

 

[disneygirl4evr]

Great picture! Details Details please! Is that Bob Kelso in there with you? If so tell him hello from Wisconsin!

 

[ynottony99]

Great picture! Details Details please! Is that Bob Kelso in there with you? If so tell him hello from Wisconsin!

Well, yes I believe that is Bob up there in the cab of the Roy O. Disney. He was visiting with our engineer the morning of our Magic Behind the Steam Trains tour during the CPHS UN-Meeting in October.

 

[bama_ed]

Tony, thanks for the updates here. I am a fan of all things steam in railroads. We have a membership with the Tennessee Valley Railroad museum in Chattanooga and my G-scale collection of Aristocraft locos are all steam or mini's (no diesels is my point). My first trip to the Fort was about a year after the FWRR stopped running (but tracks still went by the Meadow TP).

I received David Leaphart's book as a wonderful Christmas present from my dear dad and have loved reading it. What's interesting to me personally is how stations/stops were used then not, when they moved, etc. It also provides information about when building and loops were added (original loops were 100-600) and when major buildings came in (Pioneer Hall, Meadow TP, the Check-in building) or moved (the Bike Barn).

Finally I am glad to get a digital image of the FWRR drumhead. That might make it onto a home-made Fort t-shirt or two with some other Fort images I've assembled.

Thanks, Bama ED