Here's part 2, embedded for your convenience. Wonderful behind the scenes stuff from Mark Eades, Orange County Register. He writes:
"It takes more than the push of a button at Disneyland to run the steam engines on the narrow gauge Disneyland Railroad. Because they are authentic steam-powered locomotives, it takes a fireman and an engineer.
The conductor of the train may tell them when to go and stop, but the pair working in the cabs have to manually keep the steam boiling and the engines operating smoothly.
Keeping track of all the valves and gauges can seem daunting to the uninitiated eye, and with a different operating pressure for the engines- 125 pounds per square inch for the C.K. Holliday, E.P. Ripley and Ernest S. Marsh and 150 psi for the Fred Gurley and the Ward Kimball – that would seem to complicate things.
But I found out that the engineers and firemen who operate the trains are proud of what they do, and take it all in stride while waving to the guests and more.
I took my video camera with me during a ride on the Disneyland Railroad with Curtis Flournoy and Norm Arakaki, who are qualified at both positions, to find out what it takes to run the theme park’s steam trains as they make a complete trip around the Magic Kingdom."
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