By Peter De Keles

Author  Bio Looking for a different vignette on your Garden Railroad. Here's an idea that combines bicycles and rail.

Title:	Dodging Bulls and Gunshots on New Jersey's 19th-Century 'Bicycle Railroad'
Publication:	Atlantic Cities
Date:	08/06/12
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Category	Misc
Overview	A monorail for bikes that would let blue-collar workers fly over farmlands to their factory, never mind if the trip occasionally involved outrunning a snorting, enraged bull. The bicycles that glided along the rails were not like today's Schwinns. They had mismatched wheels, one at 20 inches across and the other spanning a foot, and instead of pushing on pedals to create propulsion a rider had to repeatedly depress a ratchet mechanism, like he was pumping air into a tire with a hole in it.
URL Link	Link to Full Story - Might still not be available online.
Click to download the attached file(s): PDF copy of story (287KB)

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bike monorail

Interesting tidbit of history. Enjoy tidbits like this!

Rex Welker - 10/27/2012 - 07:19

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