Midland Beach Railway Company

The Midland Beach Railway Company was the operator of a miniature railway at Midland Beach in Staten Island, New York City around 1903. The railroad operated along a pier jutting out from what is now the South Beach Boardwalk.

Operation
The track was laid on the pier at Midland Beach, which was 1800 ft in length, and its steam locomotive was designed to draw a train of nine cars. The gauge of the locomotive was a unique, and it was built like a standard trunk line steam locomotive in every particular. Its length was 5 ft, its width 18 in, and its height 28 in from the rail to the top of the smokestack. The passenger cars were 5 ft long and 22 in wide, and the train ran on a track laid with 8 lb/yd T-rails.

Locomotive
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. Some of the street railway parks at which these machines have been run in 1902 were those of the Oil City Railway Company, Oil City, Pennsylvania; the West Chicago Street Railway Company and the Richmond Beach Railway Company.