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The Carolwood Pacific Railroad was a gauge, live steam backyard railroad, built by the American animated film producer and animator, Walt Disney (1901–1966) in the backyard (garden) of his home in Los Angeles, California. Walt Disney's uncle, Michael Martin, had been a steam locomotive engineer. As a teenager in Missouri, Disney had a summer job selling newspapers, candy, fruit, and soda on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway. Disney loved the uniform, the trains, the candy, and the chance to see the country. It was Disney's lifelong fascination with the railroad that in 1950 led to the building of the Carolwood Pacific Railroad (and even before that, a huge Lionel layout in a room adjacent to his office at the Studio). With his daughters and their friends happily in tow in his backyard, Disney would ride on his -long, 1/8 scale miniature railroad. This inspired him to include a railroad as the backbone of his family-oriented Disneyland theme park, which opened in Anaheim, California in 1955. Today, railroads and monorails are featured at many Walt Disney Company theme parks worldwide. == Backyard railroad == In 1949, Walt Disney moved his family to 355 N. Carolwood Drive, adjacent to the still city-owned bridle trail and stream, in the Holmby Hills district of Los Angeles, California. Inspired by his animators Ward Kimball and Ollie Johnston who had backyard railroads, Disney launched construction of a 1/8 scale live steam locomotive, rolling stock such as gondolas and a caboose, trackage, and a small storage barn modeled in miniature from one in Marceline, Missouri of his youth. The locomotive was patterned after the Central Pacific #173, a historic wood-burning engine brought aboard ship from the East Coast "around the Horn" and assembled in California to begin construction of the transcontinental railroad eastward through the Rocky Mountains. To keep the initials identical on the CP #173, he named his railroad the "Carolwood Pacific", in reference to his residential location on Carolwood Drive. A total length of of railway track circled the house, looped and crossed, with turnouts, gradients, a trestle long, overpasses, and an elevated dirt berm. Lillian Disney was supportive of her husband's train hobby, although she vetoed a track through her flower beds, causing him instead to install a "S" curved tunnel beneath them. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carolwood Pacific Railroad」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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