Editing Elias Disney (section)

====Farming, fiddling and work on the railroad====
Disney worked on his father's new farm until 1884, when he left to find another job.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last1=Barrier|first1=Michael|title=The Animated Man|date=2007|publisher=University of California Press|location=Los Angeles, California|isbn=978-0-520-24117-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/animatedmanlifeo00barr/page/12 12 of 393]|url=https://archive.org/details/animatedmanlifeo00barr/page/12}}</ref> He was hired in a railroad machine shop for the [[Kansas Pacific Railway|Kansas Pacific Railroad]]<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kiste|first=Andrew|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dbk8EAAAQBAJ|title=The Early Life of Walt Disney|publisher=White Owl|year=2021|isbn=9781526780836|pages=11|access-date=September 17, 2021}}</ref> (one of his co-workers was [[Walter Chrysler]]), then he joined the railroad crew building the Union Pacific line through [[Colorado]]. After the railroad contract was over, he became a professional [[fiddle]] player in [[Denver]]. Again he was unsuccessful, and he returned to his father's farm.<ref name=":0" />