Urbita Lake Railway
The Urbita Lake Railway was a long miniature railway with a gauge of , which operated from approximately 1910 to at least August 1915 at Urbita Hot Springs Park (since 1966 the location of the Inland Center shopping mall) in San Bernardino, California. History. In 1910, the Pacific Electric Railway took-over the San Bernardino Valley Traction Company and thus became owner of the Urbita Hot Springs. At this time the Hot Springs were a very profitable business, which had been originally developed by R. Paragette in 1901. According to a contemporary newspaper, the railroad was unique, because  it had probably the youngest president and oldest engineer in the world, the president being Buster ‘Buddy’ Courcy, at the age of two, and the engineer being the retired railway worker Bill Simpson from the San Bernardino Valley. Locomotive. The locomotive had been built as (Original) No 1903 by John J. Coit and has previously been used on the Long Beach and Asbury Park Railway, the Venice Miniature Railway and the Eastlake Park Scenic Railway. The oilfired steam locomotive with a total length of from tip of pilot to end of tank couple and a height of from the top  of rail to the top of stack was of the 2-6-0 type. The locomotive had some technical innovations, such as a valve control without eccentrics, which was easy to adjust and to maintain. The locomotive had automatic couplings and a bespoke oil burner, for which Coit filed a patent. The locomotive had a weight of including the tender, and excluding the tender. The tender had a capacity of water and oil. The weight of the locomotive was spread over six driving wheels with a diameter of and two smaller wheels of a pony truck with the diameter of  onto the rails. The Vanderbilt type boiler had a maximum pressure of and delivered . The cylinders were bore x stroke. The locomotive had a pulling power of .