 The key to the master plan
Another locomotive and 3,000 feet of track are the main items in our new plan.
With two trains running, you'll be able to ride without a long wait. The new track
will run inland from the shoreline of the Bird Refuge, where you'll see cattails and wild iris and native waterfawl.
Then you'll travel past and through the new continental environments. You'll have
close-up views of the animals while the engineer answers questions and gives you facts and figures.
The train will round the bend, and you'll have a fine view of the beach and the Pacific.
The train stops here at the new Cabrillo pedestrian entrance; you can get off here and wander the spacious
botanic gardens of the fabulous estate given to the people of Santa Barbara by Mrs. Lillian Child, or
go to the third station and take a
leisurely stroll downhill through the core zoo.
The expanded railway will help the young, the elderly, and the handicapped to see the zoo more easily.
This project is critical to the completion of the plan; we cannot
begin the work on the elephant, bear, North America, or Australia exhibits until the existing track is relocated.
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