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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.
About This Item
- Title: Cycle No. 1, Portland Company, ca. 1889
- Creation Date: circa 1889
- Subject Date: circa 1889
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Locations:
- Portland, Cumberland County, ME
- Coney Island, New York, NY
- Media: Photographic print
- Local Code: Coll. 242, Box 37, 37-92
- Collection: Portland Company records
- Object Type: Image
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- Manufacturing industry--Maine--Portland
- Boynton Bicycle Railway (N.Y.)
- Portland Company (Me.)--Manufactures
- Metalworking industry--Maine--Portland
- Inventions
- Cyles and cycling
- Monorail railroads--New York--New York
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