Talk:Carolwood Pacific Railroad

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Carolwood Pacific Railroad was a ridable miniature railroad run by Walt Disney in his backyard (locomotive pictured)?

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Drawings or copies of blue prints? (Done)

Please check, whether the locomotive's design, chosen by Walt Disney after seeing a smaller locomotive model with the same design at the home of rail historian Gerald M. Best, was based directly on the Central Pacific No. 173, a 4-4-0 steam locomotive rebuilt by the Central Pacific Railroad in 1872, of which drawings were recreated at 1:8 scale by Southern Pacific draftsman David L. Joslyn, based on the original specifications recovered from a warehouse archiving the railroad's corporate records, as stated by User:Cak22. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 11:42, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done @NearEMPTiness: Per the Broggie book on page 127, Dave Joslyn was the man at Southern Pacific who provided copies of the original blueprints, but he did not create the 1:8-scale drawings based on those blueprints. One of the guys on the Disney team did that. So, the info provided in that edit was not entirely correct. In my opinion, this additional info is not very significant, and there isn't a good place to put it in the article without creating run-on sentences or having it seem like an out-of-place piece of random trivia (which we want to avoid). Jackdude101 ^talk ^cont 23:32, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Jackdude101: Thank you for the clarification. Done, indeed. --NearEMPTiness (talk) 05:27, 20 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Lillian Disney link

I note that the name Lilly Belle is mentioned some 15 times, but not once wikilinked to Lillian Disney. Could that be adjusted? (there is a link to her, when she "objected to the plan that part", i.e. unrelated to the loc). - DePiep (talk) 17:41, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@DePiep: A Lillian Disney link is already present in the third paragraph of the History section. Ctrl+F Disney's wife, Lillian Disney on the article page to confirm. Jackdude101 ^talk ^cont 23:19, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that is what I referred to (sentence part "objected ..."). This is the first mentioning of her as a person, and in that sense correctly linked. But, I was wondering: the name Lilly Belle is mentioned earlier (as locomotive name), and never linked nor is het real name mentioned nearby (e.d., first time mentioning). IOW, when I read "named after his wife", nor her real name nor a link is provided. I don't think there is a rule for this, I just thought you might want to consider adding this. (My eye caught it because I was interested in that names backgrounds and could not click it easily; but hey maybe I am not a regular reader ;-) ). -DePiep (talk) 08:06, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe add like: "the Lilly Belle, a 1:8-scale live steam locomotive named after Disney's wife Lillian". -DePiep (talk) 08:10, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You can do it yourself, WP:BOLD... :-) --Janke | Talk 09:41, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done @DePiep: Jackdude101 ^talk ^cont 14:51, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I wanted to leave it to you, in case I missed some subtility. -DePiep (talk) 15:29, 30 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

"CPRR" listed at Redirects for discussion

The redirect CPRR has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2023 July 27 § CPRR until a consensus is reached. Silcox (talk) 14:51, 27 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]