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nickgully

October 20, 2020 04:03PM

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Otto Mears almost build a cog railroad, electric, from Ouray to Ironton in 1893, but the market dropped out underneath him.
I imagine fixed frame box motors with outside cranks to connect to a large DC motor.

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-Nick

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