[1] The Olomana arrived in the Kingdom of Hawaii in August 1883, after a two-month journey sailing around Cape Horn.

The Olomana was operated by a lone engineer and ran at an average speed of 5 miles per hour (8.0 km/h) on sets of prefabricated, 3 ft (914 mm) gauge railroad tracks that could be taken apart and reassembled at a different location.

The locomotive was bought by Gerald M. Best in 1948, who shipped it back to the continental United States.

Walt Disney, who was often invited to visit Kimball and occasionally ran the locomotive, remarked that the Olomana was "the nearest thing to a Mickey Mouse engine he had ever seen.

[4] The locomotive was moved on January 23, 1999, from the American History museum to the Arts and Industries Building.