How Walt Disney's Love of Trains Changed the World — huffingtonpost.com

Walt Disney loved trains, and because of that, the world is a better -- and happier -- place. Walt was fond of saying that his empire "started with a mouse." And indeed, his creation of Mickey Mouse did make him a fortune. But the idea for Mickey Mouse came to him while riding a train. It's quite possible that if Walt was not such a railroad buff, Disneyland and none of the other 11 Disney theme parks would exist. Certainly, if not for Walt, four old beaten-up steam locomotives that did decades of work hauling hemp and sugar cane on the Ferrocarriles Unidos de Yucatan (United Railways of the Yucatan) would have long ago been turned into scrap metal in Merida.

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