Disneyland's main berm, as I said, actually comprises several unattached berms that surround the park. This one stretches from the west side of Main Street Station all the way to the railroad tunnel between the show buildings for Pirates of the Caribbean. As you ride the railroad from Main Street to New Orleans Square, you're sitting in a depressing at the center of the berm—in other words, its cross-section is M-shaped. Beneath it passes part of the Indiana Jones queue (the bat caves, spike chamber, and hall of descending blocks), which you can faintly see beneath the berm in this modified render. Note that this is the
only part of the Indy line that goes underground. Everything before it is in a long, short, aboveground building, while everything after it is in the large main show building, a small part of which is visible at the far right.
The existing areas of this render are pretty accurate, but there's a certain amount of guesswork involved, particularly with the planter area down at the bottom, toward the left. Photos, blueprints, and personal accounts are extremely welcome, naturally. =D
And just as a reminder, make sure to click the image for a full-sized version. When you're done with that, click the
Back to the Flickr photo page link. You'll be taken to a smaller version, but it'll have "notes" floating over it to point out various things in the view.
2 comments:
Looks like there's a backstage/emergency exit tunnel under the berm here too, which you should be able to see while on the train.
I'll have to look for that.
Yes, indeed. That's a service road that passes below the berm, into a pitlike courtyard next to the first Pirates show building. There are doors into the Indy queue from this area, as well as into the Westside Diner inside POTC building #1, and into the train tunnel between the two show buildings. I've been through this area on just one brief but delightful occasion, so I was able to visually gather details I couldn't obtain from aerial photos, blueprints, and cast member descriptions.
It's rather hard to see from the train, but you can see it—the berm kinda gets in the way. Funnily enough, I'm just about to post a render that shows the view from the train tracks, including what that tunnel looks like.
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