From there the track crossed one of the lake's arms on a steel and concrete trestle bridge into a pampas grass plantation.

After a bend the track continued on the perimeter of the park and along the railway line of the Southern Pacific Railroad across a driveway bordered with large fan palms.

[4] John J. Coit built the track of miniature railway and designed and probably even manufactured the steam locomotive.

He was friend 'Shorty‘ Chase was a person of short stature and wore a suit and a bowler hat as a conductor on all of Coit's railways.

[5] Coit returned in 1908 to Eastlake Park after a legal dispute with Kinney, and operated his locomotive No 1903 and three cars for approximately two years until around 1910.

[6] The locomotive had some technical innovations, such as a valve control without eccentrics, which was easy to adjust and to maintain.

The Vanderbilt type boiler had a maximum pressure of 10 bar (150 psi; 1,000 kPa) and delivered 25 horsepower (19 kW).