Walt's Disneyland: A Walk in the Park with Walt Disney [Paperback]

CHAPTER TWELVE
THE GRAND CIRCLE TOUR
 
“‘You want to run it up front?’

“‘No, no, no,’ he was saying.

“I said, ‘Go ahead. All you do is push the Johnson bar forward and open the throttle and it will start off.’

“So he did and I watched him. His eyes were dropping out of his sockets and he had his mouth open. He was running a locomotive for the first time.”

—WARD KIMBALL
 
On Opening Day, the Santa Fe and Disneyland Railroad had two locomotives running, both named for pioneers of the Santa Fe Railway, the corporate sponsors of the attraction. Engine number one was the C. K. Holliday, named for Cyrus Kurtz Holliday (and inspired by drawings of Walt’s one-eighth-scale Lilly Belle locomotive, the centerpiece of his Carolwood Pacific home railroad named for his wife). The E. P. Ripley, number two, was named for Edward Payson Ripley.
 
When Disneyland opened, there were only two train stations: Main Street, U.S.A. and Frontierland. Spur tracks were used then, meaning that if guests boarded in Frontierland, they bypassed Main Street, U.S.A. and disembarked in Frontierland, and vice versa. The theming for each train reflected the image of the station and land it served: the Ripley, with ornate yellow cars, reflected a Main Street, U.S.A. exuberance, while the Holliday, with a more rugged Frontierland sense, pulled gondolas and, for a short time, cattle cars in which passengers stood.
 
In 1958 and 1959, two more locomotivl'