Item 11896 - Cycle No. 1, Portland Company, ca. 1889
Contributed by Maine Historical Society
Description
"Shown here is a side view of Eban Moody Boynton's Cycle No. 1, built for his Boynton Bicycle Railway. The monorail engine had a double-flanged 93-inch-diameter single driving wheel. The engine weighed 22 tons and was 15.5 feet high and 4 feet wide. It was built in 1889 and ran on a line to Coney Island, New York." --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, 37-92
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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Maine Historical Society
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LC Subject Headings
Cyles and cycling
Inventions
Metalworking industry--Maine--Portland
Portland Company (Me.)--Manufactures
Boynton Bicycle Railway (N.Y.)
Manufacturing industry--Maine--Portland
Monorail railroads--New York--New York
People
Eben Moody Boynton Eben Moody Boynton
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Boynton Bicycle Railway (NY) , Bikes ,
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