Adams' Electric Railway System 1884 pics model

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I receved this old cabinet card from a friends estate…it reads… “Compliments of Wellington Adams as operated at St Louis Exposition 1884”

Need any info on this.

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Yoy may get a response at the Toy Train forum.

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Check out the Library of Congress web site’s Railroad Maps section – I saw a map of a real railroad named the Adams Express Company there a couple of years ago, which may have been the prototype for this model.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrmapsubjindex1.html

A Google search turns up nothing about an Adams Electric Railway. If there was such a product, it must have been very short lived.

A person by the name of Arthur Wellington Adams is the subject of a book which makes reference to an electric railway, but the book is out of stock. See

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2006-30,GGLD:en&q=arthur+wellington+adams

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Great historical photos!!!

underworld[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

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Adams’ Electric Railway System 1884: Still looking for info on this train. Anyone got info?