Item 11895 - Cycle, No. 1, Portland Company, ca. 1889
- Item 11895 - Cycle, No. 1, Portland Company, ca. 1889
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- Item 11895
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Image Info "This 1889 monorail steam engine, Cycle, No. 1, was the brainchild of Eben Moody Boynton of West Newbury, Massachusetts. He had it built along with a second engine for his Boynton Bicycle Railway in Coney Island, New York, New York. It had a two-story cab and a 93-inch double-flanged single driver. The two trailing wheels made it a 0-1-1-1 wheel arrangement. Here we see it on a test track with a wooden overhead rail to stabilize it at the Portland Company yard." --Fletcher, David H. "The Portland Company 1846-1982." Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Pub., 2002, 38.
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