This is a great image of the EP Ripley Disneyland Santa Fe Railroad Engine Number 2 steaming up backstage on opening day. The train set is the passenger train set which is now part of a personal train collection in San Luis Obispo, except passenger car number 106 which was converted to the Lilly Belle now running around Disneyland as a VIP car. The first train to run on opening day was engine number 1, the CK Holliday pulling the freight train set. That is the train seen in the video of the opening day ceremonies. I like the construction trucks sitting backstage on the access road. I believe this was taken on the Tomorrowland side of the park, next to Harbor Boulevard but cannot be entirely sure.
Danielle from the blog Tofubeast has uploaded a 8 mm film made by her dad at Disneyland in 1967. Here is the link to check it out Tofubeast Disneyland 1967. It is a very cool film with the end of the film being especially nice showing Tomorrowland of 1967.
Nice! Did you say you picked up a whole set of opening day slides?
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who is jenya? r would love this picture.
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