Due to the rising cost of electricity, the museum has elected to investigate the possibility of replacing streetcar service with dog carts. A test installation of this technology was authorized and was conducted in Barn 6 over the weekend, as seen below. It was generally agreed that the technology is worthy of further study, including further capacity and endurance testing as well as cost analysis comparing the price of electricity vs Alpo.
News and views of progress at the Illinois Railway Museum
Monday, September 14, 2009
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Dog power will be the rage until some young inventor, hoping to cash in, invents a steam-powered loco-motive to pull the carts....
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