Byways, streets and rail lines of yesteryear, rivers of today, super freeways and sky-trails of the future, paths and celestial seas in the ageless realm of make-believe are ready for travel—and all can be traversed in a single day at Disneyland.
Tours into four centuries in horse-drawn streetcars, stagecoaches, Mississippi stern-wheelers, old-time trains, cars-of-tomorrow, “flying” pirate galleons and rocket ship will take visitors through Walt Disney’s fabulous, 160-acre showplace of fact and fantasy, opening July 18 on the outskirts of Anaheim, in Southern California.
This $17,000,000 wonderland of past, present, future and fable has been erected to 4/5-life scale to add charm and quaintness to the settings sprawled over part of what once was historic Rancho San Juan Cajon de Santa Ana.
An exception to the over-all scale is the entrance, a 5/8-scale reproduction of a railroad station of the 1800's, where visitors to Disneyland may begin their series of travel adventures. The station will be the starting point for trips on two replicas of old-fashioned trains. Steam locomotives with throaty whistles will pull the minutely detailed trains, one with six elaborately decorated passenger coaches and the other with six freight cars equipped with seats. The trains will circle Disneyland.
The railroad station faces on a Nineteenth Century American town square with its town hall, post office, band pagoda, opera house and fire hall. Youngsters will be invited to ride with the fire laddies on an exciting dash to a fire in their brilliant, brass-trimmed hose-and-chemical wagon pulled by a matched team of Welsh ponies.
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