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Take a look at specific pieces of Walt Disney's backyard miniature live steam train. Enjoy amazing photos of similar railroads from decades ago and miniature railroads still in use today.
Above you see a graphic we've produced showing the basic layout of the Carolwood Pacific in Walt Disney's Holmby Hill backyard. No other graphic quite like this is know to exist. Below you see the layout of the home and railroad being compared to the current property.
Walt and Lillian purchased the Holmby Hills homesite in 1949. It was the last home in which either of them permanently lived. Although, at the time of Walt's death in 1966 the Disney couple was staying in the home of daughter and son-in-law Diane and Ron Miller who had recently moved to a larger home. They purchased the Miller house as a temporary place to stay as they remodeled their home on Carolwood.
Upon seeing the Carolwood location for the first time, Walt expressed that