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Look it. I got something for ya.

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-You're gonna pin that onto your shirt.
-Oh, you wanna wear that?

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-Wow. You're gonna wear it on your shirt?
-[Gonzales] That's a conductor badge.

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Ours is not just a mode of transportation,
as I don't like to think of it that way.

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Come on in, guys. Welcome aboard.

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[woman] Thank you.

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Here at Disneyland,
we try to recreate that idea of traveling

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to get to somewhere new,
somewhere exciting.

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Just the sound of that whistle.

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[train whistle blowing]

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It never gets old.
It will never get old for me.

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You hop on that train set, and boom,

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and you just automatically
go right back in time.

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It was that old idea of adventure.

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That's one of my favorite parts
of the job, actually.

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[Gonzales]
Welcome to Disneyland Railroad roundhouse.

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We have four different sets of tracks.

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We're standing in front
of locomotive number four.

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This locomotive was built in 1925
by the Baldwin Locomotive Works Company,

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and it was brought here
to Disneyland in 1958

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and put on the line in 1959.

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Part of our rite of passage
when we first joined the railroad

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is working night shifts.

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At the end of the night, we'll have to
polish any of the brass that you see here.

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When I was two years old,
probably one of my earliest memories,

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my grandfather bought me
a train set for Christmas.

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And, of course,
me being the little sneaky kid that I was,

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I found it in the closet.

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And I remember staring at that train set
for almost a month straight.

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And, finally, Christmas came,
and you know, I opened it up,

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"Oh, surprise, surprise.
There's a train set."

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I still have it to this day.

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In high school, I used to sneak out...

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get on the Green Line, go to the Blue Line
and go to Union Station

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and just study and do my homework
in the terminal.

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Used to just sit there
and kinda take it in.

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Think about the heyday in the '40s...

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and the steam engines that were
coming in and out of that station.

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All aboard!

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[Gonzales] Through college,
I was working on cars,

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and taking apart motors
and anything I could get my hands on.

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Naturally, I came here
when I was going to college,

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looking to even get a glimpse
of the steam engines.

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Now I get to run them,
which is a dream come true.

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People often say
it all started with a mouse,

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but I firmly believe
it all started with a train.

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Walt was coming out to Los Angeles,
and that's where he drew up Mickey Mouse.

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It was on a train that he did that.

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Often, he would come out
from his apartment

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that's right here on Main Street,

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hop on a locomotive and take it away.

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Some people didn't even know
they were being pulled by Walt Disney.

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He was just, you know,
a big kid playing with his toys.

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[train whistle blowing]

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Good morning.

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It's unbelievable what I get to do,

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be it I'm sitting inside the cab
of a locomotive.

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It's also the people, not only
my coworkers that I get to work with,

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which are like-minded
and they're a lot of fun to work with,

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but also the guests.

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-Make sure you visit Mickey Mouse's house.
-Okay.

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It's satisfying everything I ever thought
I would wanna do in life.

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It's pretty neat.