Mickeys Choo Choo
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Mickeys Choo-Choo is a 1929 Mickey Mouse cartoon. Ub Iwerks was the animator. Mickeys Choo-Choo was released at the same time as Springtime, the third Silly Symphony to appear. It was one of the series of early Disney cartoons that led Mickey Mouse to become a national fad by the end of 1929.
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Plot
The cartoon opens with Mickey piloting a steam engine, and ringing his bell, and blowing the engines whistle. As the engine and his coal tender back to collect a boxcar, the engine rests with Mickey, his railroad engineer, fuelling him, and feeding his engine with coal from the tender. As the engine eats too much coal and burps, Mickey decides to have some spaghetti, until Minnie comes along. After Mickey finishes his lunch, Minnie arrives with a violin that she can play, and hops onto the freight car. Minnie plays a musical song while Mickey does the same. As Mickey looks at his watch, only to realize that they are late, he yells All aboard! to the engine, which whistles in cheerful response after Mickey gets on board. The engine slowly starts out of the station and chuffs cheerfully through the beautiful countryside toward a hill and struggles up it. The engine ends having problems and starts to cry until the cartoon ends with an image of Mickey and Minnie Mouse riding a handcar (made from the chassis and a plank of wood from the freight car which came uncoupled accidentally when Mickey tried to push the train up the hill when it got stuck earlier in the film) into the sunset, which inspired a famous toy version, manufactured by the Lionel Corporation. The toy company made so much money from this item and others like it that Mickey was known as "the mouse that saved Lionel."
Trivia
The engine of the train that Mickey pilots is a 2-2-0 engine or an American type locomotive, which was the most common wheel arrangement for steam locomotives, during the 1800s on American railroads.