There the trains looped around the Post Office and again followed Mildred Avenue, until they crossed several canals on Riviera and Rialto.

It had been successfully used on the Eastlake Park Scenic Railway, but at 8,000 lb (3,629 kg) lacked the weight and power for the planned activity at Venice.

Therefore, Coit ordered a 9,260 lb (4,200 kg) oil-fired steam locomotive of the 2-6-2 (“Prairie”) type at his former employer, the Johnson Machine Works, into which his innovations had to be integrated.

[3] The railway used ten passenger coaches in an elaborate Venetian style with lion's head ornaments on their sides, which had been supplied by the J.G.

When Kinney wanted to get more control over the day-to-day business in Venice, he tried in 1906 to take over the railway from Coit, although they had both signed a five-year contract.

He forced the railway to close down for six months during the summer, allegedly because one of the wooden bridges needed to be replaced by a concrete structure.

[9] The railway was regularly used for another 18 years until the early 1920s, when it lost its attraction due to increasing auto traffic.

The wagon was parked on the track because its operator was familiar with the area and had concluded that the railway doesn't normally run in the morning.

[14] The 1-Spot was acquired from a scrap heap in Vernon by Al Smith (not the Orchard Supply Hardware executive who supported the Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad and Swanton Pacific).

[3] The 2-Spot was by chance found and rescued at the last hour before its planned export to be scrapped in Japan by Billy Jones, who purchased it, reconditioned it, and used it on Sundays to entertain the neighbors’ children on his ranch.

In Harold Lloyd's 1917 movie By the Sad Sea Waves his character pretends to be a beach lifeguard in order to be more attractive to the ladies.

The movie concludes when Harold and his newest conquest Bebe Daniels ride off into the sunset aboard the Venice Miniature Railway.

[17] The Century Comedy Kids run the train on behalf of their sick father in the silent movie Speed Boys, which was released in Holland as The New Engine Driver.