Horse-Drawn Street Cars
Last Updated: August 9, 2024
Ride a horse-drawn trolley down the turn-of -the-century thoroughfare
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Horse-Drawn Street Cars Deaths and Injuries:
Disneyland horse freaks out during training and hurts a 13-year old girl
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Accident Date: 6/25/2013
Accident Type: Injury
Jun 25, 2013:--At Disneyland, a horse was in training to become a buggy horse. It was with three trainers, but became startled for an unknown reason and got loose from its reins.
Authorities said while the horse was loose, it hit a 13-year old girl
Horse-Drawn Street Cars Secrets:
Nomenclature May 25 1955:
Disneyland Street Railway
4 Horse drawn street cars
Hitch: 1 horse per street car.
Route: Depot, Main Street, Plaza.
Required an "A" ticket in 1955-1957
Required an "A" ticket in 1959
Required an "A" ticket in 1964-1965
From Main Street Vehicles Story Guide 1966:
The horse-drawn streetcars are composite reproductions of 19th Century streetcars and were built at the Studio Coach Shop. "Imagineers" at WED Enterprises, Walt's planning and designing firm, built our four streetcars by working from photographs of earlier authentic vehicles.
From WED Disneyland Dictionary 1968
Carry passengers aboard horse-drawn trolleys over 3.660 feet of tracks on Main Street from Town Square at Disneyland's entrance to the Plaza, heart of the "Magic Kingdom." Each of the four cars carries 23 persons and is drawn by one horse. A double track midway on the avenue.and circle routes at each end, enable cars to pass. Heavy duty draft horses are primarily Belgian and Percheron varieties.
From 1970's Attractions Showmanship:
The four horse-drawn streetcars are composite reproductions of nineteenth century streetcars used as late as 1800 in such cities as Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia. Working from authentic photographs of earlier such vehicles, WED designers built exact replicas of these useful trolleys. The large horses which pull the streetcars are either Percheron, Belgium, Clydesdale or a cross between Shire and Percheron. Each works a four hour day, five day week and is given "taxi service" to and from the stables.
Required an "A" ticket in 1970's
The tracks part halfway down Main Street so that two streetcars can pass each other.
Each car holds 30 passengers and weighs 2 tons
*You can find the horse's name inside the streetcar above the driver (the horses have their own name-tags).
*The horses only work 3 days a week 3 hours each.
*The breeds that are used are Clydesdales, Percherons, Belgiums, Shires, and Brabants. All of these breeds were bred for pulling. They can pull twice their body weight in dead weight. The street car tracks are greased everyday, making it easier for the horses to pull.
The Street Car was an A Ticket ride (or 10 cents).
*There was not enough money in the budget for the horse drawn street cars, but Walt Disney had a huge passion for animals and he wanted the streetcars so badly that he paid for them out of his own pocket.
*=Secrets courtesy of Anna Bartlet
Horse-Drawn Street Cars Specifications:
THEORETICAL CAPACITY
This figure is what the attraction should yield under ideal conditions utilizing all units in the system with no loss in efficiency at any position. This figure should be seldom or never attained. It is an ideal against which to measure.
Theoretical Capacity:
365 per hour
DISPATCH INTERVAL
The time interval between the dispatching of units.
Dispatch Interval:
4:27
INSTANTANOUS CAPACITY
Number of guests that can be handled when ride opens
Instantanous Capacity:
Trips:
13 per hour:
Audience Control Capacity:
DISTANCE
Distance Traveled
Distance:
1940 feet
CAPACITY PER UNIT
Capacity for each vehicle or show
Capacity Per Unit:
27
SPEED
Average speed vehicles travel
Speed:
3.70
CYCLE TIME
From the time a unit passes any given point in the cycle until it returns to that same point.
Cycle Time:
8:56
QUEUE FACTOR
Average wait time; the number of minutes from the time a guest steps into a line until he actually sets foot on an attraction. 1965
Queue Factor:
Negligible
LOAD TIME
From the time the guest(s) begins to enter the unit until the guest(s) is seated and the unit is safe to dispatch.
Load Time:
1:26
TRIP TIME
From dispatch to unload.
Trip Time:
3:01
ATTENDANCE FACTOR
(Total Guests Carried/Total Main Gate Attendance) * 100 (1964)
Attendance Factor:
15.4
UTILIZATION FACTOR
Capacity Percentage * Attendance Percentage (1964)
Utilization Factor:
4.5
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