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- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
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A Marvelous Time Was Had by All
On the Scenic Railway at the Newsboys’ Picnic in Cincinnati, August 1908. A marvelous time was had by all. View full size. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine.
Give Me a Brake
Notice the man that seems to be higher than everyone else in the center of the train. He is the brakeman. That was a feature of scenic railway type rides.
Still thrilling at Coney
Coney Island is still alive and thrilling kids of all ages just east of Cincinnati, Ohio. Check out "classic rides" under attractions to see the "Python" steel coaster on their website...
http://www.coneyislandpark.com/
Coaster
A quick check on the rollercoaster database www.rcdb.com shows the park to still be open. Only one coaster is operating now and it is steel.
Only one coaster was listed for 1908 called Figure 8 after the track layout. Scenic Railroad was a generic name for early coasters.
Not much description is give outside of the usual stats. http://www.rcdb.com/id2032.htm
Coney Island???
I went to Coney Island when I was a kid. I think this picture was taken there.
[It was taken there - at an amusement park in Cincinnati called Coney Island, on the banks of the Ohio River. - Dave]
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