Disney artist and friends spend Sundays riding his private locomotive
Every railroad enthusiast in America has the dream of someday sitting behind the throttle of a huffing, puffing locomotive all his own. In 1938, Ward Kimball, one of the chief animators at Walt Disney Studios, got the opportunity to prove that the dream was economically feasible when the Nevada Central Railroad went out of business and sold its rolling stock to San Francisco junk yard. Kimball heard about the sale just in time to save the Sidney Dillon from joining two of its sister engines in a scrap-metal shipment to Japan. […]
