[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by Flyingwedge

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1912:

LAPL -- http://jpg1.lapl.org/pics19/00009151.jpg

c. 1912:

CA State Library -- http://catalog.library.ca.gov/exlibr...4P5ITIA1D1.jpg

Very interesting post....FW.

This is the Eastlake Park Scenic Railroad that ran all over the park and over the lake. Built and operated by master machinist John Coit and probably was a similar attraction like the small trains in Travel Town and in Griffith Park today. The miniature train did not last long at the park. When Abbot Kinney was in need of a light railway system for his Venice Pier resort area in Southern California, he contracted Coit to do the work. The popularity of the railway at Venice and the state of the not-so-popular Eastlake Park Scenic Railway [Lincoln Park] prompted John Coit to move the train to Venice around 1905.


Here is the little train before it was transferred to Venice. The maker, Mr. Coit is wearing his usual bowler hat.



Lincoln Heights WP