Ward Kimball (locomotive)

Ward Kimball is steam locomotive #5 on the Disneyland Railroad at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. Kimball is a 2-4-4 locomotive built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1902, and went into service at Disneyland on June 25, 2005. It was named in memory of the late Ward Kimball, an animator for Walt Disney Animation Studios from 1934 to 1972. He was one of Walt Disney's Nine Old Men. The headlight of the locomotive features a gold leaf silhouette of one of Kimball's most famous creations, Jiminy Cricket.

Pre-Disneyland history
The locomotive was originally built by Baldwin in 1902 for the Laurel Valley Plantation in Louisiana. The locomotive was later used at the Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, where it was known as the Maud L. It was received by Disneyland in a trade in 1999 and was restored by Boschan Boiler and Restorations in Carson, California, in 2004.

The Ward Kimball is the only locomotive of the Disneyland Railroad not to be named in honor of an Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway executive.