I receved this old cabinet card from a friends estate…it reads… “Compliments of Wellington Adams as operated at St Louis Exposition 1884” Looks like a garden RR. Click on photos to enlarge.
Need any info on this.
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Great photos!!! Thanks!
underworld[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
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Tomkat
Your photos are very interesting, especially since they precede the installation of the first U. S. trolley line by four years. Thanks for sharing them.
Bob
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Tomkat,
Cool postcard. I’ve forwarded the link on to a couple of our contributors who are interested in garden-railway history.
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I agree it looks a bit like a garden railway but my old eyes could not find any rails.
I do not really think it is a garden railway and i do not really know what it is?
Rgds Ian
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Adams’ Electric Railway System 1884: Still looking for info on this train.
This is really incredible!! Wellington Adams is my 2nd great grandfather. In 1893 he invented and pitched the first high-speed electric railway in the US, a 252-mile Chicago to St. Louis route with a maximum operating speed of 100 mph. Sadly, he lost a legal battle on his original patent that lasted 5 years. Which marked the end of the Adams Electrci Railway System. He was never the same afterwards.
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See also the thread on this topic in Classic Toy Trains
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