Look it. I got something for ya.
-You're gonna pin that onto your shirt. -Oh, you wanna wear that?
-Wow. You're gonna wear it on your shirt? -[Gonzales] That's a conductor badge.
Ours is not just a mode of transportation, as I don't like to think of it that way.
Come on in, guys. Welcome aboard.
[woman] Thank you.
Here at Disneyland, we try to recreate that idea of traveling
to get to somewhere new, somewhere exciting.
Just the sound of that whistle.
[train whistle blowing]
It never gets old. It will never get old for me.
You hop on that train set, and boom,
and you just automatically go right back in time.
It was that old idea of adventure.
That's one of my favorite parts of the job, actually.
[Gonzales] Welcome to Disneyland Railroad roundhouse.
We have four different sets of tracks.
We're standing in front of locomotive number four.
This locomotive was built in 1925 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works Company,
and it was brought here to Disneyland in 1958
and put on the line in 1959.
Part of our rite of passage when we first joined the railroad
is working night shifts.
At the end of the night, we'll have to polish any of the brass that you see here.
When I was two years old, probably one of my earliest memories,
my grandfather bought me a train set for Christmas.
And, of course, me being the little sneaky kid that I was,
I found it in the closet.
And I remember staring at that train set for almost a month straight.
And, finally, Christmas came, and you know, I opened it up,
"Oh, surprise, surprise. There's a train set."
I still have it to this day.
In high school, I used to sneak out...
get on the Green Line, go to the Blue Line and go to Union Station
and just study and do my homework in the terminal.
Used to just sit there and kinda take it in.
Think about the heyday in the '40s...
and the steam engines that were coming in and out of that station.
All aboard!
[Gonzales] Through college, I was working on cars,
and taking apart motors and anything I could get my hands on.
Naturally, I came here when I was going to college,
looking to even get a glimpse of the steam engines.
Now I get to run them, which is a dream come true.
People often say it all started with a mouse,
but I firmly believe it all started with a train.
Walt was coming out to Los Angeles, and that's where he drew up Mickey Mouse.
It was on a train that he did that.
Often, he would come out from his apartment
that's right here on Main Street,
hop on a locomotive and take it away.
Some people didn't even know they were being pulled by Walt Disney.
He was just, you know, a big kid playing with his toys.
[train whistle blowing]
Good morning.
It's unbelievable what I get to do,
be it I'm sitting inside the cab of a locomotive.
It's also the people, not only my coworkers that I get to work with,
which are like-minded and they're a lot of fun to work with,
but also the guests.
-Make sure you visit Mickey Mouse's house. -Okay.
It's satisfying everything I ever thought I would wanna do in life.
It's pretty neat.