The Beautiful Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad at Vasona Park - 18“ gauge Live Steam in Los Gatos - 60p

William “Billy“ Jones’ railroad began in 1939, when as a regular engineer on the Coast Daylight run, he spotted a derelict miniature locomotive in a scrap yard during a layover in San Francisco. Purchasing it for the princely sum of $100, he moved it back to his prune orchard on Daves Avenue in Los Gatos. That locomotive turned out to be Venice Miniature Railway #2, formerly operated in Venice Beach, CA. during the heydey of Abbot Kinney’s artist-community development on the beachfront west of Los Ange