Design anticipates

Nov 18, 2009

Ramp-shaped railroad cars, invented by Henry Latimer Simmons:

One train may passover another train which it meets or overtakes upon the same track.

“Crashproof,” as Greg Ross points out. The 1895 patent.

[Image: Futility Closet]

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