The new Frontierland train station entrance stairs are complete and open at Magic Kingdom as construction continues on the adjacent Tiana’s Bayou Adventure.
Frontierland Train Station Stairs
During the construction of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, the Frontierland train station’s exit stairs were demolished and reconstructed. They then acted as the entrance while the original entrance staircase was demolished. The ramp remained open.
Work is complete on the new stairs, although a construction wall remains up next to the staircase.
The station has a new entrance sign too, framed by two lanterns.
It features the Walt Disney World Railroad logo with interlocking Ws and a D in yellow. Below the logo is “Railroad Station” in red. “Entrance” is in yellow on a blue section.
The sign has a light wood finish with yellow detailing.
Another sign reading “Entrance up the stairs” has an arrow pointing up. A second arrow points to the ramp with wheelchair access. It also says, “Supervise children at all times.”
Modern metal handrails are attached to the more frontier-appropriate wooden railings.
The staircase turns at the landing.
An open doorway leads from the stairs to the train platform.
The space blocked by a construction wall holds materials like ladders and unused wood planks.
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure Queue
Meanwhile, new wooden posts with wrought iron lamps have been installed in front of the train station. Some of these are in the flowerbed with Frontierland props installed last month.
From the train station, we looked down into another area blocked by construction walls.
Here, there were two stacks of poles staged for installation. These match the poles we saw added to the queue earlier this month.
The wood poles have been stained a light brown, with darker brown carvings on the bases.
One of these poles with lamps is up in a flowerbed behind the station.
The two metal lamps are blue, matching the railings and other lamps behind construction walls.
The carvings on the post are four-petaled flowers.
Two small pieces of hardware above the lamps imply more might be installed on the post.
The posts in the queue behind construction walls also now have blue metal lamps.
Interestingly, the posts behind construction walls have not been stained the same brown color. They are almost white.
Speaking of white wood, new paneling has been installed on the front of the building between the yellow barn and the railroad platform. For months, the walls of this building have featured exposed weather-proof sheathing.
There are now white wood planks and light brown planks covering the walls.
Crew members worked on the scaffolding over the building during our visit.
They were also working on the brown stairs that lead down from the building.
When we passed the building on a train, we saw some exposed wiring, likely for a light.
Some of the metal lampposts in the Tiana’s Bayou Adventure queue remain wrapped in plastic with no actual lamps added yet.
New railings and doors were staged against the barn.
The railings (left in the photo above) are the same that line the queue’s flowerbeds.
As for the doors, there are three. Two look to be the size of the barn entrance, while one is shorter and has windows in it. The latter door might go inside the barn.
Nearby, a matching small door with windows sat on a box.
More lampposts and large pieces of wood were in this area, too. Boxes branded for Tiana’s Foods were installed last week.
About half of the queue still features the wooden fencing of Splash Mountain. The new railings are blue with golden toppers. The metal lampposts feature the same color scheme, with gold above the lamps.
The railings encircle this pathway under the train station. New plants have been installed in the flowerbed in the middle of the looping path.
The tops of the gate have been painted gold. A circular piece of wood covers part of the path.
Plants spread out from this pathway under the train station’s exit.
Other Tiana’s Bayou Adventure Construction
On the mountainous façade of Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, we saw some crew members working on the foliage. A few were on the right side of the salt mine.
Others were in front of the Tiana’s Foods water tower.
There are both fake and real plants covering the attraction.
Next to the visible flume was a pile of wires.
We’ve seen crews doing electrical work in this area for new lantern lights.
Tiana’s Bayou Adventure will open at Magic Kingdom this summer and at Disneyland later this year.
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