All a-b-o-a-a-r-d!
Nowadays, that familiar conductor's cry, announcing that a train is ready to depart the station, is rarely heard in America. Faster modes of transportation have left most passenger railroads by the wayside and many children are unaware of the charm of riding across the country in a coach or Pullman car.
But reviving the days when clouds of billowing steam, the shriek of a whistle and the distant clickity-clack, clickity-clack meant "“"Old No. 1" would soon be rounding the bend are four steam engine relics, chugging down the railroad tracks of Walt Disney World in Florida.
Disney railroad scouts acquired them in Mexico before the Florida theme park opened. Each narrow-gauge locomotive and its five passenger cars takes guests on a grand circle tour of the fabulous Magic Kingdom.
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