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SKU: 29130 LGB 29130 Grizzly Flats Set, CE, Collection Item
$595.00
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LGB 29130 Grizzly Flats Set, CE, Collection Item
From the beginning of the Disney studios, Ward Kimball was
one of the most important artists on Walt Disney’s team. He penned many
famous characters such as Snow White, Pinocchio and Dumbo. But his
connection with Disney was reinforced because both loved trains. One day,
Walt Disney instructed Kimball to build a small romantic train station for
the movie “So Dear to My Heart,” and Grizzly Flats Station was born. After
the movie was completed, the station vanished into the huge inventory of
the movie company. But when Ward Kimball began to build a railroad in his
garden, Walt Disney simply gave him the train station prop. That was the
beginning of Grizzly Flats Railroad, “America's first full-size, backyard
railroad,” in California. A little earlier, Ward and Betty Kimball had
bought two 0-4-2 Baldwin locomotives from a Hawaii sugar plantation. One
of the locos, named Pokaa, was rebuilt and named after Chloe, the youngest
daughter of the Kimballs. That loco is used to haul the Grizzly Flats
sightseeing cars.
You can operate this train on your LGB layout. The LGB model of the steam
loco Chloe is as colorful as its prototype. The interesting cab, the large
smoke stack and the cow catcher have been faithfully replicated. The model
even features the “see-through” space between the boiler and drivetrain.
With its onboard decoder, the loco is suitable for operation on analog and
LGB MTS layouts. Together with the two Grizzly Flats sightseeing cars, you
can replicate a stylish Grizzly Flats train.