[1] On 24 September 1881, the track construction work began when Princess Lydia Pākī, later Queen Lili'uokalani hit the first spike in one of the railway sleepers.

The 3 miles (5 km) long mainline began at the northern end of Aalona Street in Kilauea and led southwards over Kolo Road onto Pukalani Square.

[1] It started halfway on Kilauea Road, then northwards and eastwards to Makanaano Square and ended at Kahili Landing above Mo'ko'lea Point.

A third line started at the Lili'uokalni Street crossed the Kilauea River on a wooden trestle bridge and ended in the ahupua'a of Lepeuli.

[3] The photographs of a herbicide poison train taken in 1914 alarmed the Health Department’s Hazard Evaluation and Emergency Response Office to investigate and mitigate the environmental pollution caused by the sugar cane industry.

Subsequently an extensive cleanup program was conducted in 2012, including in the removal of 814 tons of contaminated soil in the area.

[7] The Wai Koa Loop Trail (22°12′37″N 159°24′58″W / 22.210146°N 159.416059°W / 22.210146; -159.416059 (Anaina Hou Community Park, 5-2723 Kuhio Highway, Kilauea, HI 96754)) is an easy hike of up to 8 km (5 mi) to the foundations of the bridge piers of the former railway.