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Title: Popular electricity magazine in plain English
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Electricity
Publisher: Chicago, Ill. : Popular Electricity Pub. Co.
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luable by-prod-ucts may be derived. Indeed it is ex-pected tliat the fertilizer, tar and oth >1by-products will pay all expenses ofoperating a plant for generating nectnc*ity from peat. 274 POPULAR ELECTRICITY MAGAZINE The Queerest Railroad inWorld to Electrify the A single rail, hung at a height of aboutfour feet, and the engine and train splitin the middle and hung on each side ofthe rail! Thats the kind of a railroad Irelandis to electrify if present plans are carried■out. Down in the Southwest ofIreland is the fair city of Lis-towel in the famous CountyKerry. Here is the location ofthe Lartigue Railway, in a re-gion especially frequented bytourists and society people. It and society folk wild to ride down toBallybunion on our line. The idea seeped in so thoroughly thatby February, 1888, there had been set upthe Lartigue railroad and bookings forpassage were one constant succession.To be dragged up to Listowel and backastride of a steel rail was the funniestthing you could do.
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IN LOADING CATTLE CARE MUST BE TAKEN TO DISTRIBUTE THE WEIGHT EVENLY ON THE TWO SIDES OF THE CAR is owing to the fact of electricityscleanliness and up-to-dateness that thepresent improvements are wanted.Listowel is one terminus of the Lar-tigue, the worlds queerest railroad.Down at Ballybunion, County Kerry,on the seacoast at the mouth of theShannon, and a famous watering placefor Irish society, is the other terminus.The towns are ten miles apart. Owing to Kerry being such a havenfor tourists and Ballybunion being aresort for the minions of society, therewas devised by a genius for such thingsthe Lartigue railroad. If, insisted he,we can contrive the oddest railroad im-r.ginable, we shall find all the tourists They didnt have to hunt for the funeither. In order to ride comfortably orsafely, the weight in the cars had to beas evenly balanced as possible, exactlythe contingency that has to be consideredin fitting out a train of pack mules withpanniers. A fat woman and a lean lover woul

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