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Identifier: wonderscuriositi00kenn (find matches)
Title: Wonders and curiosities of the railway; or, Stories of the locomotive in every land; with an appendix, bringing the volume down to date
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Kennedy, William Sloane, 1850-1929
Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: New York, Hurst & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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r, and the rolling-stockconsists of one locomotive and thirty-five cars. Anotherwooden-track railway, fifteen and a half miles long, hasbeen constructed by Messrs. Land and Pritchett on thegradings of the abandoned South Carolina Central railroad.It cost the firm twelve hundred dollars a mile, and wasbuilt by them to carry the products of their turpentine dis-tilleries to a market. Very curious are what may be called the Bicycle Rail-ways, built with a single rail. One called the Steam Car-avan was begun in Syria, between Aleppo and Alexand-retta. The rail was raised on a wall of masonry twenty-eight inches high, and seventeen and one-half inches broad;on the rail travelled the wheels of the locomotive. Theengine and the last car in the train were also to be supported,or braced, by obliquely placed leather-covered wheels travel- ♦ For a description of Elevated City Railroads see Chapter X, near cud, andlor Colonel Stevenss idea see Chapter II, page 33, A HAI^DFUL OF CURIOSITIES. 117
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118 WOKDEKS AKD CURIOSITIES OF TH5 RAILWAY. ling along the sides of the wall; these wheels also to serveas brakes, by the aid of properly applied levers. TheSteam Caravan road seems never to have been com-pleted. A single-rail, or bicycle, railroad has also beenconstructed in this country. It is the invention of GeneralLe Roy Stone; was in operation at Phcenixville, Penn-sylvania, in 1876, and was exhibited in Philadelphia in thesame year. A two-wheeled locomotive has been constructedin Gloucester, New Jersey. The weight is four tons, and thewheels have very deep flanges. This bicycle locomotive wasmade for an elevated city railroad in Atlanta, Georgia.Similar to this locomotive are the Railway Velocipedes, somany of which are used on western roads. They have awheel on each track, are light in construction, and are pro-pelled by the feet and hands of the rider at the rate oftwenty miles an hour. There are several Toy Railways^ or model railways forexperiments, in this country and Euro

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