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'''[[:Category:Monorails|Monorail]].''' Lightweight monorail system developed by Joseph W. Fawkes. To demonstrate the system as a viable transportation conveyance he constructed a track 800 feet long and propeller powered, 56 passenger trolley car named the "Aerial Swallow". Fawkes attempted to franchise his invention to local cities, proposing a system into download Los Angeles. After a trial run it was nicknamed "Fawkes' Folly" and the system was scrapped some time after 1929. | '''[[:Category:Monorails|Monorail]].''' Lightweight monorail system developed by Joseph W. Fawkes. To demonstrate the system as a viable transportation conveyance he constructed a track 800 feet long and propeller powered, 56 passenger trolley car named the "Aerial Swallow". Fawkes attempted to franchise his invention to local cities, proposing a system into download Los Angeles. After a trial run it was nicknamed "Fawkes' Folly" and the system was scrapped some time after 1929. | ||
<span class="rlbottom">Burbank, Los Angeles County. 1910 - 1929</span> | <span class="rlbottom">Burbank, Los Angeles County. 1910 - 1929</span> | ||
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<span class="rltitle">[[Las Casitas Railway|Las Casitas Railway.]]</span><br /> | |||
'''[[:Category:Hillevator|Hillevator]].''' Operates between two four-unit residential buildings clinging to the hillside on the 700 block of Bay street. | |||
<span class="rlbottom">San Francisco, San Francisco County. 1960 - Present</span> | |||
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Revision as of 08:56, 22 August 2021
Oddities.
Aerial Trolley Car Company.
Monorail. Lightweight monorail system developed by Joseph W. Fawkes. To demonstrate the system as a viable transportation conveyance he constructed a track 800 feet long and propeller powered, 56 passenger trolley car named the "Aerial Swallow". Fawkes attempted to franchise his invention to local cities, proposing a system into download Los Angeles. After a trial run it was nicknamed "Fawkes' Folly" and the system was scrapped some time after 1929.
Burbank, Los Angeles County. 1910 - 1929
Las Casitas Railway.
Hillevator. Operates between two four-unit residential buildings clinging to the hillside on the 700 block of Bay street.
San Francisco, San Francisco County. 1960 - Present
Sonoma Valley Prismoidal Railway.
Prismoidal Railway. Considered to be the first monorail system in California. The Sonoma Valley Prismoidal was constructed following the Crew Patent One-Rail Railway system. The line operated a short 6 months before being declared a failure. Portions were later converted to 36in gauge as part of the Sonoma Valley Railroad.
Norwalk to Schelleville, Sonoma County. 1876