page_title: Miniature Railway Company
section_title: Charleston Exposition
hierarchical_section_title: Miniature Railway Company / Charleston Exposition
caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (find matches) Title: The street railway review Year: 1902 Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association Subjects: Street-railroads Publisher: Chicago&#160;: Street Railway Review Pub. Co Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: the grounds. The routes touched all points of interest fromthe Sunken Gardens and the Conn of Palaces to the headquartersfor hoky-poky, and patrons found these baby trains an iconvenience as well as a joyful novelty iii the manner o: transporta-tion. The outfit consisted of locomotive and tender, with a totallength oi (, 11. o inches, weighing 1,200 lbs., and cars 6 ft. long and \ftvr operating its brake for three years on the lines of theMemphis Street Railway Co., and thus demonstrating the goodqualities of the device, the American Power Brake Co., of Memphis,Term., secured a trial order from the St. Louis Transit Co., equip-ping -i\ cars. After a thorough test the St. Louis Transit Co. de-cided to adopt the brake and made a contract for the equipmentof the system, and the brake company is now placing the brakes onthe cars. The American Power Brake Co. announces its willing-ness to place brakes on trial, being confident that a service test onlyis needed to bring out its advantages. Text Appearing After Image: MINIATlRE RAILWAY AT THE CHARLESTON EXPOSITION. 24 in. wide, weighing 125 lbs. each., all a.- complete in detail and asbusiness-like in aspect as a transcontinental express. The difference,and thats in favor of the Lilliput. is that on this ideal system thereare no baggage-men to badger one, no porters that one roust tip, norany man with a megaphone voice to assail one with magazines andsamples of chewing gum. Not since the daj oi LohengrinU.at and Cinderellas pumpkin coach has a conveyance been inventedwhich, for the fun of the thing. BO completely tills the bill. The Miniature Railway Co., w; ll 101 Broadway, New York, has iwied a catalog giving full descriptions of it-types of diminutive railways and pictures showing them in operation in many of the famous park- throughout the world. IIpanys excln Jty 1- the manufacture of light steam loco motives of • and variety of di prai I I gage of track, wide or narrow. The locomotives arc well adapted fot il ives are unsuital(Tie logging r Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: The Miniature Railway Company on Broadway, New York, operated their ridable miniature railways at four World Expositions around 1900 and delivered them to many parks throughout the world.
context_section_description: At the Charleston Exposition from December 1, 1901 to June 20, 1902 the lilliputian railways installed by the Miniature Railway Co. comprised one of the most popular attractions and best-paying amusement features on the grounds. The routes touched all points of interest from the Sunken Gardens and the Court of Palaces to the hoky-poky dance floor in the headquarters. Patrons found these baby trains an indispensable convenience as well as a joyful novelty in the manner of transportation.
  The outfit consisted of a locomotive and tender, with a total length or 9 feet 11 inches (3.02 m), weighing 1,200 pounds (540 kg), and cars 6 feet (1.8 m) long and 24 inches (0.61 m) wide, weighing 125 pounds (57 kg) each, all as complete in detail and as business-like in aspect as a transcontinental express. The difference, and that was in favor of the Lilliput, was that on this ideal system there were no baggage-men to badger one, no porters that one must tip, nor any man with a megaphone voice to assail one with magazines and samples of chewing gum.
caption: Miniature railway at the Charleston Exposition, 1901/02
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