Built by the Banning Family that owned Santa Catalina Island, this railway served the tourist trade, and was one of two lines built there. After a fire hit the island's main city, Avalon, in 1917, the Bannings developed financial troubles that subsequently forced them to sell their Santa Catalina holdings, including the railways, in 1919 to Chicago gum magnate, William Wrigley.

The line closed for good in 1923.

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