The railroad operated along a pier jutting out from what is now the South Beach Boardwalk.

The track was laid on the pier at Midland Beach, which was 1,800 feet (549 m) in length, and its steam locomotive was designed to draw a train of nine cars.

The passenger cars were 5 feet (1,524 mm) long and 22 inches (559 mm) wide, and the train ran on a track laid with 8 pounds per yard (3.97 kg/m) T-rails.

[1] The lilliputian locomotive was made by the Miniature Railway Company of New York.

Their devices have proved profitable at street railway parks as well as at some of the fairs, like the Pan-American Exposition, at Buffalo, New York, and those at Omaha, Philadelphia and Charleston in the early 1900s.