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What's What in the Engine House:
The machinery used to hoist the trains up the inclines was more complicated than even these full-size models by Fred Connacher of Cresson, Pennsylvania, indicate. Approximately below where you are standing would have been another two-cylinder engine and behind you another set of boilers.
With the exception of the boilers, most of the machinery to raise and lower the trains was located below the ground level. This made it possible for the rope that hauled the trains to be just above the surface and the cars could pass over the machinery as they came to the top of the incline. |