Item 11895 - Cycle, No. 1, Portland Company, ca. 1889
Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
"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.
Other Information
- Title: Cycle, No. 1, Portland Company, ca. 1889
- Creation Date: circa 1889
- Subject Date: circa 1889
- Town: New York, Portland
- Local Name: Coney Island
- County: Cumberland
- State: ME, NY
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 37, 37-91
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Maine Historical Society
489 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04101
(207) 774-1822
http://www.mainehistory.org
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Boynton Bicycle Railway (N.Y.)
Inventions
Portland Company (Me.)--Manufactures
Manufacturing industry--Maine--Portland
Metalworking industry--Maine--Portland
Monorail railroads--New York--New York
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