For a brief two years during the 1890s, there was a rail service between Gravesend and Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York. The railway was unusual because the locomotives and the carriages ran on a single set of wheels upon a single rail. To impart stability to this unwieldy setup, a second rail ran overhead engaged by a pair of horizontally opposed wheels. The railroad was called the Boynton Bicycle Railroad, named after Eben Moody Boynton, who invented it.
Maintenance yard of the of the Boynton Bicycle Railroad.
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Boynton’s Bicycle Railroad
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