The Griffith Park Trains Have Reopened - LA Live Steamers Ride Thru / Travel Town & Walt’s Barn Tour
Griffith Park Los Angeles
Transcript
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welcome everyone adam the woo here as a
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recording of this sunday may 15 2022
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starting off in burbank at the donut
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prince
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small d
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capital p not sure why both words are
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not capitalized or
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why both words are not capitalized but
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the piping hot caffeinated beverage that
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they sell
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is
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large
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i'm gonna be doing some griffith park
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stuff
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one day a month walt's barn is open just
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so happens to be today might go by the
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desolate zoo that used to remain there
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also the carousel that inspired
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disneyland meeting up with a friend and
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do a
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wide variety of other things in griffith
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park i'm inviting you it's just right
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over there a few miles not too far to
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join me
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shall you and remember don't get a
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divorce
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get a donut i always like this car wash
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sign it's an old-timey car wash here on
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the corner of hollywood way
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over there pretty neat and as i pull
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into griffith park you notice there's a
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lot of signs saying horses a lot of
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horse trails up here it's also very
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interesting that i always state what i'm
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doing at the beginning but then i end up
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doing a lot more than a plan so there'll
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probably be some other stuff i don't
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even know i'm going to get around to
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that i'll do i'm trying to go up here
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and find parking parking lot's pretty
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full up here it is the weekend i don't
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think i've ever seen a fruit stand up
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here before but they got a fruit stand
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up here by the parking yeah a lot of
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people out picnicking and whatnot today
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because it is a sunday it's the weekend
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now i'm not going to be doing any hiking
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today now i but i have in the past
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traversed some of the paths
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up here in the mountainous areas a lot
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of people do they utilize all those
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hiking trails all around griffith park
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down at the bottom of hill is a carousel
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as technically it's referred to as the
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griffith park merry-go-round but in the
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disney folklore it is known as the
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carousel and that particular carousel it
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is said that walt disney would show up
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here with his daughters and he had a
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father daughter day which inspired him
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gave him the inspiration and you know a
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lot of other things kind of inspired him
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as well but was one of the main reasons
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he wanted to build a theme park type
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thing where parents could do things
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you know with
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with their youngans
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and that's basically what inspired him
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to create disneyland so the story goes
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so the folklore go and there are a
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couple of benches
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one bench still on property
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from when walt was still alive could
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have been the one he sat on there's also
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a couple one at disneyland and one at at
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the
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family museum and i believe it's san
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francisco san francisco is where the
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other bench is there's three benches one
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here one at disneyland one the family
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museum and then maybe a fourth
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in a private collection somewhere so if
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you're ever at disneyland which is about
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30 miles south of here and want to make
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the pilgrimage up to la in the burbank
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area
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griffith park north hollywood that whole
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section
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stop off here if you're into history
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it's a pretty important spot when it
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comes to
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to that type of thing if you're into it
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and bricky has arrived yes now i have to
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ask have you ever been here
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i thought about it i thought about it i
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thought about lying and being like yes a
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long time ago yeah sadly like a bunch of
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dumb dumbs that live in la i don't
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always take advantage of them okay and
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sadly this is my first time but i've
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been in here in spirit with you before
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it's not sadly because you are now here
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so i'm glad you have made it and you
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know the history of it yes obviously
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being a disney aficionado
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walt here you know you know the whole
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the whole story
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i think we're gonna be too heavy to ride
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this because i think there's like a
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hundred and
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fifty pound weight limit or something
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i've been here a number of times never
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been on it we could get on one of the
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ones that doesn't have the horsey that
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goes up and down
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like one of the stationary ones but i
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feel like i feel like that wouldn't be
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worthwhile what if instead of riding it
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we sat on a bench and imagined a better
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future okay we could do that for
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griffith park or just in general for the
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world in general no like walt did when
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he looked at his daughters going by yeah
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we can do that i don't have i don't have
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any daughters
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i mean
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or sons
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we have to use a lot of imagination
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we could do that
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have you been to griffith park before i
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have been okay have you ever been to the
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the old zoo that's right over here i
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have not we'll walk over there too and
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we'll take a look at that
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now for a while they did the haunted
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hayride the la haunted hayride through
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here in fact this is where everyone
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would park and where the queue line
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would begin the last two years or so
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they have done it down the hill not at
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the the old zoo
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but the old zoo
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is over this way i kind of wish they'd
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bring the the hayride back you'd walk
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right through here and then you'd get on
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like a little hay ride and go through
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the zoo
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but
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i guess something's going on but they
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can't use this this area of the park
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anymore now they did film quite a few
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things here i believe they filmed some
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of the tom hanks movie dragnet
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also anchorman right in here a police
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academy movie bobcat goldthwait
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was over in this section but they just
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left the old section of the zoo when
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they built a new zoo still sitting there
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and if you look through the spray paint
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you'll see
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the city zoo was open from 1912 to 65
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and then it moved to the new spot so
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this thing's been sitting empty for over
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50 years
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well over 50 years
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one thing that's really interesting
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about walking through this area i
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wouldn't consider this hiking because
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the main hills are over here but i
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realize
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how completely not in shape i am just by
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going up slight inclines
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like this just from going from the
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ground level
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down there i wouldn't say i'm completely
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out of shape but i'm not in shape i mean
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you feel it it's gravity doing its job
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that's that's the best way to describe
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it
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do you ever see anchorman yeah there was
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a scene in anchorman with the bear will
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ferrell and the bear and it was like
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right over in here okay it might have
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been one of these other sections but it
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was
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kind of over in this area
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it's pretty wild to think well no pun
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intended because the animals were not in
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the wild but it's
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wild to think that
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there were big animals all in here
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probably a little
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let's say a little tetanus
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wrapped i probably shouldn't even be
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touching that
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oh wait i can't go this way now a few
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years ago well many years ago
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when i was here
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kind of meandering around like this they
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didn't have the locks on the gates that
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you could go in there and get some good
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photos wow it looks like since then
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they have
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kind of upped their lock
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block game
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because of all the tv production
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or just production in general does
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something like this get left in los
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angeles
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like why didn't this get torn down
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that's a good question i don't have to
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think it has anything to do with the tv
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production
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i don't think that they i don't think la
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cares about that too much yeah
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maybe but i'm gonna i'd probably say no
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because it's such an unusual thing that
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still have upright
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because i don't even know how much is
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really filmed out here right i mean
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there's some stuff in the 80s
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and then you know a couple things i
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mentioned
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but it's not like this is used as a film
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set all the time
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easily could be though yeah
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i'm just looking for one that doesn't
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have a lock on it look at all these
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cobwebs
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creepy
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now if one wanted to it could crawl
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through there
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and get underneath that little thatch of
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leaves
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i don't want to but you could oh wait
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wait wait wait
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this doesn't have a lock on it but it's
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it's
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sealed shut
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oh yeah it's been
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it's been sealed up
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they've torn something down that was
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here
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seemed to recall i hear a train
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too
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train's a colin there's a lot of trains
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in griffith park
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and this looked over here this this is
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open too
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this stairwell
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that's pretty neat
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that's something out of a horror film
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yeah that's pretty picture pennywise
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crawling up there
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yeah if
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uh a team was making a horror movie on a
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budget i mean this is this is we all
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float down here
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oh i'm sure this is probably using a lot
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of
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you know independent gorilla style
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filmmaking
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stuff you put three guys with long hair
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there and it's already your metal bands
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the most shot
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all right arrived over at walt's barn
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area and i want to do this at some point
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the little miniature train that goes by
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right over here open today 11 to 3 free
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admission free parking east gate live
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steamers and the parking lot here is
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very very full like it was tough to find
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parking i found one spot that i wedged
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my car into a lot of people here which
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is good to see
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i have not been here in a few years
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pretty neat in fact the last time i was
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here they unveiled
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one of the ride vehicles through mine
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train through nature's wonderland that
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was here
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i do love railroads and obviously disney
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history
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pretty cool
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and this event is run by volunteers and
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the live steamers
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organization
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see they got some equipment out here got
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some lights now it is free admission
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drop a little donation into the the
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donation station and then they give you
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a carol
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wood
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barn sticker
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as well decorate your blouse
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we got to do that train let's go through
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there yeah i believe that's decorate
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your blouse yeah
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now we take the train depending on how
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long the line is the train will go right
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past these little miniature buildings
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here the gold hotel buck saloon
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there's
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mines chiropractor
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which is what you need when you get off
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big thunder mountain railroad
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no not big thunder mountain railroad
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matterhorn
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and it is a nice day got the wind
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blowing there not only the california
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republic flag the u.s flag and also the
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railroad pacific flag as well which is
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not waving in the breeze quite as much
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but it's still waving it in its own
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style
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there's a little souvenir stand over
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and some entertainment people recognize
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music more hi how's it going i don't
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know why science says that but if you're
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old you will know more comments
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look at some of the merch over here
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yeah there goes a train right there
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another train going around
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definitely got to do that definitely got
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to do the train and i'm also being told
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this is the first day where the
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miniature train is back it's like kind
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of the first official day they have kind
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of sort of
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i know under certain regulations but
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this is the first full day where it's
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kind of back to normal and all the steam
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up here they don't call the live
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steamers for nothing
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do you feel like you're just an overload
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of history right now it's hitting me
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back it's great
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oh there it goes that's going to be us
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brickie
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we're going to be on there
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so not only do they have the barn but
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they also have the train car one of the
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old train cars and it looks as if we
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might be able to go inside
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the old santa fe and disneyland railroad
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train car we're gonna be able to go
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inside there this is the 101
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you just think this thing was rolling
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around disneyland opening day that's
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amazing you can see this in the opening
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day special really yeah uh when park
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what's his last name letter lake ladder
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yeah he's like
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and ronnie reagan he's screening people
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and the train pulls off and this is the
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first passenger car no kidding i think i
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knew that but i forgot now i wanted to
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plus things how do i make it better
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so
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that's cool
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in fact here's some photos
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okay i was incorrect in assuming you go
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on the train you can just peek in though
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you can't peek in but all this whole
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area here with the glass cases this is
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all completely new i don't remember
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seeing any of this a few years ago when
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i was here one of the fascinating things
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is we are only like a mile away from the
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original mickey mouse park where
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disneyland was going to be this is some
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concept art here over by the burbank
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studios they were going to have a train
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around there rivers of america style and
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everything right where the freeway goes
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through now and then of course going
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down to anaheim park open at 55 this is
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in 53 a reproduction of the disneyland
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site plans look at this there's catella
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right there okay where's harbor where's
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harvard there's west street
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there's ball road right up there here's
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how look at this houses and citrus
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groves here's a good photo of walt and
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roy when they returned to marceline back
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in 56 that would have been exactly one
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year almost done up to the day but to
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the month of disneyland opening and i
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can't peek into the window of the
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railroad however they have the windows
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open you can kind of see the seats
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down in here used to be able to walk
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through here but that's been a few years
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ago since i've been in here when they
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were able to walk through that section
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and naturally love train so that's part
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of the reason there is a railroad at
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disneyland and in magicking even though
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magic kingdom has not reopened look at
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this view master here there's even the
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view master in the view master slides
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right down there this is pretty neat too
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a pencil case
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that's a good one right there this is
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still on property this little thing that
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he's like standing on kalamazoo
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i'm kind of curious that they still have
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the ride vehicle from nature's
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wonderland
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still around in fact that right there is
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part of nature's wonderland maybe some
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other photos and i don't see nature's
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wonderland in there just the
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trains you know they just brought out a
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vintage magic kingdom game but this is
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like oh this is like original disneyland
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board game that is awesome and they do
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have the ollie johnston depot
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over here as well
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a little miniature
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depot station right along the tracks as
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well
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a little piece of history got the names
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and the concrete oh it's doing it's
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doing the coding it's doing the opening
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day speech oh yeah hey hear it yeah
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just like over in new orleans square
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yeah
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well speech opening day isn't that cool
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they even have a little light in the
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window there yep just like the lantern
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waltz apartment
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well they are just doing a lot of grand
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circle tours i don't know if it's a
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circle it's probably more like a figure
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eight but
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this is so cool
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oh look at that it says griffith park on
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and i love it epcot they also have a
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miniature train area over a world
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showcase
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so you got
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miniature train and even bigger
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miniature train and another miniature
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train over there
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okay we're now getting in line
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to go in the barn
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have fun
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he's looking for the ghosts
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he's in his happy place right here and
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here's a pretty interesting piece so
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walt disney
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looked in this very piece of glasses
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mirror and shaved his mustache trimmed
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his trimmed his facial hair
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the shaving kit's not original but the
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mirror is right that's right wow
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you should look at your mustache in
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there
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okay look at your mustache in there
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that's a reenactment well your mustache
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buddies you know yeah i noticed this
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says all the workbenches in the barn
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were hand built by walt himself so walt
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was here with a hammer and nails
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building this bench right here and then
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over this little sink over here the sink
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area all this he was in here just taking
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care of business oh this must be one of
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the original wooden trestle beams from
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the front the old property right here
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that used to like hold up the railroad
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one of the original beams
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i've never seen this before it's like a
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whole box set featuring the lilly bell
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locomotive name for lily and disney this
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was like something you could buy as a
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whole set with rainbow caverns
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right here
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remember all the old footage i never got
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to ride this before my time the old
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footage of like you know walt and the
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other imagineers walking through walking
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through this whole area
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and it's free to get in
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leave a little donation
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the donation box but
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when i walked in you mentioned this and
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i nodded in agreement and you're like
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this is the smallest train station i've
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ever seen i was like yeah yeah yeah
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because i thought you were talking about
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this mail pouch tobacco thing over here
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i didn't realize that you were talking
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about where they store the look at this
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thing it's the scale
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it's like waist high
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okay walk the hundred or so yards
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over here to the la livestreamers
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railroad museum exhibit of scale
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railroad open every sunday now walt's
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barn is only open once a month
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and i have purchased an ice cold bottle
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of water here
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first street bottle of water and a
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little memento here a little souvenir
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this whole area is awesome
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i think it's been a couple years since i
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rode this train even longer since i've
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been to the barn
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a lot of different things you can buy
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here too they also used to do a haunt
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event here called the ghost train but
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they haven't done that in a long time
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good for one round trip from new
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sherwood station los angeles livestream
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railroad museum bought not volunteer
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non-profit organization solely by
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membership dues
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one ride
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special
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excursion
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all right we're going to be sitting
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almost in the front so that can is like
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a conductor that you call them
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a conductor engineer train guy engineer
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train guy so you're sitting in the front
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i'm going to sit right behind you right
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and you're just sitting right along the
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ground so your feet are just kind of
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straddled here and i was also informed
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this is not the first day that the
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trains are back this is the third
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weekend they are doing it so it was
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misinformed about that
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asked
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the workers here they said this is the
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third time they said it is still kind of
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new if you watch my video it's the first
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weekend it's your first weekend
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i'm sticking with the first story we
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were told okay all right
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but in reality this is like the third
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weekend but it's the first time
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i don't know so even walt's the waltz
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barn has been open a couple times so
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just disregarding anything i say we were
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we've been misconstrued stories and i
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like that they have this says west to
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east the direction of travel is from the
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east
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to the west and sherwood is an elevation
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of 474 feet above and they make some
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announcements to keep your hands really
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close
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to your torso i made this mistake a few
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years ago when i put my camera out a
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little too far and i injured my hand
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because there are like water poles and
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holes right along the edge
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trust me
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ricky do not put your hands outside of
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the train
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i learned from experience the hard way i
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bruised my hands
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so see these pipes right here yeah that
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will definitely your hand will buckle
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against those
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used to have another haunt event down
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here too called boney island which was
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awesome
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kind of kitschy really cool thing i hope
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they bring that back this year for
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september and october it was located all
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down in here
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this is
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that kid and barbie in there dusty shark
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it's a race it's a train race
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another one going by over there oh they
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got the horn on there
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there's the saloon
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meals
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railroad general office the bank another
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office western union the hardware store
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keep those hands back
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now i've also heard a rumor this is the
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same train track if you've ever seen the
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steve martin movie the jerk oh yeah that
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he's on
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and
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was it bernadette peters yeah but she's
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babysitting
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this is the the track that the youth is
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like running around
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on
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i've always heard that
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i've never confirmed it rich can we get
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some of the new wine he hates these kids
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wow i always remember the guy who hated
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the cans
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he was the doctor in flesh
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just the sights and the sounds
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of the railroad
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miniature railroad doesn't get much
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better than this the weather is perfect
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oh that's so cool
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this must be where they work on all the
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miniature shrines
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wow
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look at that with the smoke
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well worth the time and the money
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only a few bucks
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that's why i was sitting you see just
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how
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low down it is
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to miniature railroad and since we're in
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the area
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travel town museum
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this is free you don't have to pay to
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get in this
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i love griffith park
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look at this relic
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i can't believe this is still sitting
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old number 28 wow
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san francisco trolley car cable car i
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always say
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trolley car but in reality it's a cable
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car
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one of the famed san francisco cable
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cars first cable car operated in 1873.
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and i recently last august
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went and did
27:28
a week or so in san francisco and was
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able to finally ride the cable cars
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not a trolley car i always make that
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mistake it's not a trolley it's a cable
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it was so cool
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and this thing used to run up and down
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the tracks a couple different streets so
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they have the cable cars
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you ever been on a cable car san
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francisco i have it's pretty cool big
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bowl of rice-a-roni it was great yeah i
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kind of figured since i was on a train
27:55
kick you might as well just stop off
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please do not
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dot dot dot climb on top the side or
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underneath any of the trains
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or exhibits oh they have it
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kind of roped off over there with
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caution tape that's interesting i guess
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they don't want anyone up on that little
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area anymore
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you ever jumped the train i've never
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done train jumping
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i never have you yes lots of times lots
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of times lots of times really yeah it
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sounds very dangerous it is super
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dangerous it's one of the dumbest things
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i did when i was young where'd you go
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how far did you go so we used to jump on
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the trains over by the university of
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louisville and we'd ride across a bridge
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on the ohio river and when you jump off
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you've got to hit the ground running and
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then you'll just run but if you don't
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holy cow very did you ever sit in one of
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the train cars and like paul reubens
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jumped in with you and you started
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singing jimmy crack corn no we never did
28:43
a jimmy crack corn never got to eat
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beans out of a can you were saying on
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the way in that you had forgotten how
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big a full-size train really is we've
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been looking at these little baby walt
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disney trains all day and then you see a
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real one you're like wow it's a big
28:57
vehicle and then the disneyland railroad
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is what a third scale yeah yeah a third
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i don't ever see full-sized trains
29:03
anymore and even when you're caught at a
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railroad they're so far away from your
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car dollywood you gotta go to dollywood
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i don't know if it's a full-size trade
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but it has to be at least a 80
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45th
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tray
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full-size steam train you have to wear
29:19
glasses on really where the embers will
29:21
get in your eyes oh wow you have to go
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to dollywood
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that train
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is legit is opryland still a thing
29:30
i don't know if it is
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and fun fact there was a columbo episode
29:33
and a couple music videos that took
29:35
place out here but peter falk
29:38
was using his columbo like research
29:40
skills out here in the classic
29:41
television episode
29:43
near one of these trains that is a big
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this is number 26.
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oh big number 26
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engine 26
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western pacific
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railroad i mean
29:55
this comes up to my neck these wheels
29:58
well maybe my upper chest yeah this is
30:01
pretty much disneyland railroad right
30:02
here but full size
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it almost looks like pretty identical
30:07
right same color pattern
30:10
obviously a lot bigger
30:17
i don't recall this one being here
30:17
back in the day
30:19
this might be a new a new addition
30:28
the scale of this building that we're in
30:28
is unbelievable like this train house
30:30
that we're in
30:31
is such this is a just a massive scale
30:35
everything
30:37
i think how many people drive down the
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freeway don't even know this is just
30:40
right off to their side that was one of
30:42
them
30:43
okay now this is stanchioned off says
30:45
authorized personnel only
30:48
but this their last year was the
30:50
anniversary of this this dining car 3669
30:53
union pacific dining car the centennial
30:56
100 years so it's now 101 years old
30:59
the centennial dining car here
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it was one of the first
31:05
all steel 36 seat diners built by the
31:08
pullman company
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is the
31:15
diamond floor still on sunset
31:18
oh the restaurant yeah on sunset i think
31:20
so it's like a hot dog place yeah
31:24
what would you say that what do you
31:26
think that does
31:27
it probably is like a tow motor that
31:30
could like tow a train in neutral to
31:32
whatever track that it needs to be on
31:34
that's what i'm assuming it would be
31:43
still tons of trains
31:44
active today
31:45
i know because when i'm traveling you go
31:47
through these rural areas you just see
31:48
trains everywhere you don't notice them
31:50
as much in the cities
31:52
we get out when you can see from miles
31:53
across the desert plains there's trains
31:55
10 miles away
31:57
off across the horizon it's pretty
31:59
awesome most affordable way domestically
32:02
to run cargo
32:04
this is also one of the few places where
32:05
you're allowed
32:07
to walk on the tracks
32:08
you really don't want to walk on
32:10
railroad tracks it's frowned upon
32:12
i mean i know when i was younger with
32:13
the thing to do well i lost my balance
32:16
so i try to walk along this
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you don't really want to do that
32:20
because you never know you can have a
32:21
stand by me moment you want to see a
32:22
dead body here's another trolley car oh
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yeah bare bones
32:28
to different type of seating yeah
32:29
compared to the fancy san francisco one
32:31
this is very bare bones
32:33
there goes another train
32:35
going by right now over across that way
32:42
i do notice though the exhibit hall
32:42
which has been open in the past
32:44
is closed down so the exhibit hall has
32:46
not reopened
32:48
in fact it says building closed right
32:54
they had a few other artifacts in there
32:54
last time it's been a couple years since
32:55
i've been in there there's a sign on the
32:57
other side for the exhibit that's coming
32:59
oh yeah crazy train a tribute to randy
33:01
rhodes it's going to be awesome
33:04
i never know when you're joking or
33:05
telling the truth all right i'll do the
33:07
outro right here it's a good place as
33:08
any
33:09
that's going to do it for today with
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bricky adventures in design
33:13
today adventures and trains
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right yeah yeah i mean it was an
33:19
unbelievable day trains of all sizes all
33:21
scales small trains full-size trains i
33:24
had no idea what i was even going to be
33:25
getting into today
33:26
you were free for a bit i said this have
33:28
you ever been to walt's bar and he said
33:29
no
33:30
you drove over met up with you
33:33
we did the barn we did the miniature
33:35
train we did train town we do anything
33:36
else uh no that's probably enough that's
33:39
it and we did a lot of things today due
33:41
to volunteers that helped keep all this
33:43
stuff going so shout out to the
33:44
volunteers who put time into keeping
33:47
different parts of the disney story
33:48
alive one day a month one day a month
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i'll see you the next video the vlog is
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over