This'll get a few second looks from drivers on Harbor Boulevard! Disneyland Railroad 2-4-0 #4, the "Ernest S. Marsh," sits on a Dunkel Brothers (equipment movers) trailer in preparation for its journey a few miles south to home rails encircling the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California. Disneyland brought this narrow gauge engine to Fullerton for the annual Fullerton Railroad Days, and #4's diminutive size was contrasted nicely with the other display locomotives: Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 (Baldwin) and BNSF Railway ES44C4 8357 (General Electric), each of which dwarfed this little 1925-built Baldwin. DRR 4 began life as an 0-4-0T for the Raritan River Sand Company in New Jersey. Disney Imagineering, using photos of Rio Grande's "Montezuma" for inspiration, rebuilt the engine into a 2-4-0 by adding a pilot truck and a newly fabricated tender, and placed it in service on July 25th, 1959. (The water tank surrounding the boiler had already been removed before Disney bought it.) The locomotive is named for then-president of the Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad (from 1957 to 1966), Ernest S. Marsh (1903-1975), who was enthusiastic about the strong relationship between the Santa Fe and Disneyland. This is the engine that led the first train through the Grand Canyon diorama when it opened.
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