3,000th Post: Disneyland's One Tunnel Main Street Train Station

Today marks 3,000 posts on the Insights blog! My, how time gets by us! So, here's a piece of concept art- one of my favorite things to share with the readers of this blog.

Ah, that beloved entrance under the tunnels of the Main Street U.S.A. station of the railroad! There's nothing like passing under those portals into the fantasy worlds that Walt Disney and his team created. So begins a magical day for every guest who comes to that happy place.

Did you know that it was once considered to be a single tunnel entrance? Yes, Imagineer Marvin Davis envisioned it like that. Here's the concept art. (He also envisioned a different concept for the Haunted Mansion's exterior.) Had his plan been chosen, the iconic Mickey Mouse flower display would not have been in place where it is.  

Thanks to the magic of a little photoshop, you can better see some of the details, especially if you click on it to a larger version:

Honestly, had they chosen this design, it still would have been charming! Perhaps not as intimate as the dual tunnel version which allows fewer people through them at once, but still a nice way to leave our world behind.

(Art copyright The Walt Disney Company.)