An extensive restoration of the E.P. Ripley replicates the five-eighth scale locomotive’s boiler, headlamp and bell.
The 22,500-pound steam engine was taken off the Disneyland track five years ago for repairs with a full restoration beginning in summer 2021. Hillcrest Railway handled repairs of the E.P. Ripley that included issues with the in-cab signaling system, according toThe E.P. Ripley and C.K.
Holliday were featured in the opening ceremonies of Disneyland with Walt himself taking the throttle of both trains for excursions around his theme park.While the original Disneyland steam engines were mechanically identical, the E.P. Ripley was Walt’s favorite, according to“I suppose I’ve always been in love with trains,” Walt wrote in the October 1965 issue of
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