List of rail transport installations
Trains of the Walt Disney World Monorail System (foreground) and Walt Disney World Railroad (background) at the entrance to Magic Kingdom Yes, in one way or another I have always loved trains.
Rail transport can be found in everytheme park resort property owned or licensed byDisney Experiences , one of the three business segments of theWalt Disney Company .[ 3] [ 4] The origins of Disney theme parkrail transport can be traced back toWalt Disney himself and his personal fondness for railroads, who insisted that they be included in the first Disney park, the original Disneyland (a key component of the Disneyland Resort) inCalifornia in the United States, which opened on July 17, 1955.[ 5] [ 6] The Disney tradition of including transport by rail in, and adjacent to, its parks has since been extended to other Disney properties with the opening of Walt Disney World inFlorida in the United States,[ 7] Tokyo Disney Resort in Japan,[ 8] Disneyland Paris in France,[ 9] Hong Kong Disneyland Resort in China,[ 10] and Shanghai Disney Resort in China.[ 11] The Disney theme park chain is the largest on the planet by annual attendance with over 155 million visitors in 2019, and the rail systems located inside its properties play key roles as modes of transportation and as attractions for its visitors.[ 12]
Each Disney theme park resort has a rail transport system serving its general resort area, whether it is amonorail system located inside the Disney resort properties in the United States and Japan,[ 13] [ 14] [ 15] or a conventional rail system connecting external rail networks to the Disney resorts in France and China.[ 16] [ 17] [ 18] The Disneyland Monorail System in California was the first monorail system in the United States; the Walt Disney World Monorail System in Florida, with an estimated 150,000 passengers per day, is one of the busiest monorail systems in the world.[ 19] [ 20] Both Disney park resort properties in the United States, as well as those in Japan and France, contain theme parks that feature genuine steam-powered railroads.[ 21] The Disney park chain has one of the world's largest private collections of operationalsteam locomotives , with seventeen in total spread across the globe.[ 21] Additional rail systems within the theme parks in both United States resorts and the Hong Kong resort resemble steam-powered railroads, but their locomotives are powered byinternal combustion engines .[ 22] [ 23] [ 24] Other rail transport modes found in Disney parks includehorse-drawn streetcar rail lines within both resorts in the United States and the resort in France,[ 25] [ 26] [ 27] replica vintage electric rail lines in California and Japan,[ 28] [ 29] and apeople mover in Florida.[ 30]
Name Location Image Motive power type Track gauge Opened Closed Notes Disneyland Monorail [ 13] General resort area[ 13] Electric (busbar )[ 31] [ 32] Monorail[ 13] June 14, 1959[ 33] – First operational monorail system in the United States.[ 19] Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark status.[ 34] Valid admission to Disneyland is required to ride this monorail.[ 35] Disneyland Railroad [ 36] Disneyland [ 36] Steam [ 37] 3 ft (914 mm )[ 38] July 17, 1955[ 37] – Design inspired by Walt Disney'sCarolwood Pacific Railroad andWard Kimball's Grizzly Flats Railroad .[ 39] [ 40] Main Street Vehicles [ 25] Disneyland[ 25] Working animal [ 25] 3 ft (914 mm )[ 41] July 17, 1955[ 37] [ 42] – Besides thetramway with horse-drawn streetcars, non-rail, old-fashioned motor vehicles are also part of this attraction.[ 25] Casey Jr. Circus Train [ 43] Disneyland[ 43] Internal combustion (gasoline )[ 22] 2 ft (610 mm )[ 44] July 17, 1955[ 45] – Based on theanthropomorphic locomotive character Casey Junior from the Disney 1941 animated feature filmDumbo [ 45] Mine Train Through Nature's Wonderland [ 46] (formerly Rainbow Caverns Mine Train)[ 45] Disneyland[ 47] Electric (battery )[ 48] 2 ft 6 in (762 mm )[ 48] July 2, 1956[ 45] January 2, 1977[ 49] Replaced by theBig Thunder Mountain Railroad mine train roller coaster attraction[ 50] Viewliner Train of Tomorrow [ 51] Disneyland[ 52] – Internal combustion (gasoline)[ 51] 2 ft 6 in (762 mm )[ 52] June 10, 1957[ 51] September 30, 1958[ 52] Replaced by the Disneyland Monorail System[ 52] PeopleMover [ 53] Disneyland[ 53] Electric (track-embedded spinning tires)[ 53] People mover[ 54] July 2, 1967[ 54] August 21, 1995[ 54] The former line's elevated track infrastructure is still present at the park.[ 54] Jolly Trolley [ 55] Disneyland[ 55] Internal combustion (diesel )[ 56] 3 ft (914 mm )[ 57] January 24, 1993[ 58] December 2003[ 59] The former line and ride vehicles are still present at the park as static displays.[ 55] Red Car Trolley [ 28] Disney California Adventure [ 28] Electric (battery)[ 60] 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+ 3 ⁄8 in )metre gauge [ 60] June 15, 2012[ 61] February 9, 2025[ 62] Non-operatingoverhead wires are in place to recreate the appearance of aheritage streetcar line.[ 63]
Disneyland Monorail System
Main Street Vehicles (Disneyland)
Name Location Image Motive power type Track gauge Opened Closed Notes Walt Disney World Monorail System [ 14] Magic Kingdom andEpcot resort areas[ 14] Electric (busbar)[ 64] Monorail[ 14] October 1, 1971[ 65] – One of the world's busiest monorail systems with an estimated 150,000 passengers each day.[ 20] No purchase of any kind is required to ride this monorail.[ 66] Walt Disney World Railroad [ 67] Magic Kingdom[ 67] Steam[ 68] 3 ft (914 mm )[ 69] October 1, 1971[ 70] – All four locomotives, originally built byBaldwin Locomotive Works , were purchased from theFerrocarriles Unidos de Yucatán .[ 69] Main Street Vehicles [ 26] Magic Kingdom[ 26] Working animal[ 26] 3 ft (914 mm )[ 41] October 1, 1971[ 71] – Besides the tramway with horse-drawn streetcars, non-rail, old-fashioned motor vehicles are also part of this attraction.[ 26] PeopleMover [ 30] Magic Kingdom[ 30] Electric (track-embeddedlinear induction motors )[ 30] People mover[ 72] July 1, 1975[ 72] – An early concept model for Epcot can be seen during the ride.[ 30] Used purely as an attraction and not for transportation purposes, as it only has one station.[ 73] Fort Wilderness Railroad [ 74] Disney's Fort Wilderness Resort & Campground [ 74] – Steam[ 74] 2 ft 6 in (762 mm )[ 75] January 1, 1974[ 76] February 1980[ 77] Numerous operational problems, poor design, and high costs led to the closure of this railroad.[ 78] Wildlife Express Train [ 79] Disney's Animal Kingdom [ 79] Internal combustion (diesel)[ 23] 3 ft (914 mm )[ 23] April 22, 1998[ 80] – Despite the dated and weathered appearance of the trains, they are actually brand-new models built bySevern Lamb .[ 81]
Transport in Walt Disney World
Walt Disney World Railroad
Main Street Vehicles (Magic Kingdom)
Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover
Storage facility (not open to public)
Space Mountain
Maintenance facility (not open to public)
Tokyo Disney Resort [ edit ]
Ferry transfer(via short walk inside park)
Stillwater Junction Station dislplay
Adventureland
Bus andmonorail transfers (via short walks outside park)
DisneySea Electric Railway
Name Location Image Motive power type Track gauge Opened Closed Notes Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy station [ 16] General resort area[ 16] Electric (overhead wire)[ 91] [ 92] 4 ft 8+ 1 ⁄2 in (1,435 mm )standard gauge [ 93] April 1, 1992 (RER );[ 94] May 29, 1994 (TGV )[ 95] – Served bycommuter trains on the Réseau Express Régional (RER) rail network'sRER A line, as well asTGV inOui ,Ouigo , andEurostar high-speed trains [ 96] [ 97] Disneyland Railroad [ 98] Disneyland Park [ 98] Steam[ 99] 3 ft (914 mm )[ 99] April 12, 1992[ 99] – Originally namedEuro Disneyland Railroad , and its old initials,EDRR , are still visible in parts of the park[ 100] Horse-Drawn Streetcars [ 27] Disneyland Park[ 27] Working animal[ 27] 3 ft (914 mm )[ 41] April 12, 1992[ 101] – Unlike its counterpart attractions in other Disney parks, this tramway is a separate attraction from the non-rail, old-fashioned motor vehicles making up the Main Street Vehicles attraction.[ 27]
Marne-la-Vallée–Chessy station
Station bypass tracks
Chessy Nord bus stops
Track 5 Track 4 Track 3 Track 2 Track 1
Chessy Sud bus stops
Disneyland Railroad (Paris)
Horse-Drawn Streetcars (Disneyland Park (Paris))
Hong Kong Disneyland Resort [ edit ] Hong Kong Disneyland Railroad
Shanghai Disney Resort [ edit ]
21 to Tanghuang Road (
2026 )
Platform 1
Platform 2 Bus stops
Similar railroads:
Museums and private railroads with rolling stock previously run on Disney property:
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