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- Otis_Elevating_Railway abstract "The Otis Elevating Railway was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge cable funicular railroad to the Catskill Mountain House in Palenville, New York. For the first 64 years of its existence, the Catskill Mountain House was accessible only by a long stage coach from Catskill Landing on the Hudson. Faced with increased competition from the Hotel Kaaterskill, served by the Kaaterskill Railroad, Charles Beach hired the Otis Elevator Company to build a cable funicular railroad straight up the Wall Of The Manitou. Opening on August 7, 1892, the line was 7,000 ft (2,134 m) long with a rise of 1,630 ft (497 m), a maximum grade of 34%, and an average grade of 12%. In 1904, the line was shortened and the lower trestle eliminated.A cable pulled the specially-designed passenger cars up the mountain, with the car having a mechanism that hooked onto the cable. To balance the system there were two cars. The cars were built by Jackson & Sharp Co. in 1892, and each car could seat 75 passengers. The cars were named Rickerson and Van Santvoord. A small open-air baggage car was coupled to the downhill end of each passenger car.The cable was pulled by two Hamilton Corliss steam engines that spun a set of cogwheels that drove the cable. Each engine had a 12-inch (304.8 mm) diameter bore and a 30-inch (762 mm) stroke. Steam was supplied by two Manning Patent vertical tubular boilers. As one car went up from the bottom of the incline, the other car went down from the top of the incline. There was a passing track in the middle of the run where the track split in two, and then rejoined. This was so the cars could pass each other without colliding, as they shared the center rail above and below the passing track.The Otis Railway and the Catskill Mountain Railway had several freight cars interchangeable with both the Catskill and Tannersville Railway at Summit Station and the Catskill Mountain Railway at Junction Station. The freight cars were 22 feet (6.71 m) long and had a capacity of 5 or 8 short tons (4.46 or 7.14 long tons; 4.54 or 7.26 t). One car could be carried at a time coupled below the coach. Boxcars were Otis Ry. 1, Otis Ry. 2, C.M. Ry. 17 & C.M. Ry. 18. Gondolas were Otis Ry. 3, Otis Ry. 4, C.M. Ry. 15 & C.M. Ry. 16. In operation, a single freight car could be coupled to the downhill end of the open-air baggage car.The Otis Junction station (pictured right after the 1904 reconstruction) connected the Otis to the Catskill Mountain Railway, a 15-mile (24 km) railroad between Catskill Landing and Palenville, New York. At the Otis Summit station at the top, it connected to the Catskill and Tannersville Railway, that ran the 5.2 miles (8.4 km) to Tannersville. In 1918, all three railroads were closed and sold for scrap. The two cars survive to this day. Soon after the railroad was scrapped, the coaches were shipped to Lookout Mountain, where they now serve the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway.".
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- Otis_Elevating_Railway wikiPageWikiLink List_of_funicular_railways.
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- Otis_Elevating_Railway wikiPageWikiLink Palenville,_New_York.
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- Otis_Elevating_Railway wikiPageWikiLink Ulster_and_Delaware_Railroad.
- Otis_Elevating_Railway wikiPageWikiLink Wall_Of_The_Manitou.
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- Otis_Elevating_Railway wikiPageWikiLinkText "Otis Elevating Railway".
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- Otis_Elevating_Railway subject Category:3_ft_gauge_railways_in_the_United_States.
- Otis_Elevating_Railway subject Category:Catskills.
- Otis_Elevating_Railway subject Category:Defunct_New_York_railroads.
- Otis_Elevating_Railway subject Category:Defunct_funicular_railways_in_the_United_States.
- Otis_Elevating_Railway subject Category:Narrow_gauge_railroads_in_New_York.
- Otis_Elevating_Railway subject Category:Otis_Elevator_Company.
- Otis_Elevating_Railway subject Category:Railway_inclines_in_the_United_States.
- Otis_Elevating_Railway subject Category:Transportation_in_Greene_County,_New_York.
- Otis_Elevating_Railway type Company.
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- Otis_Elevating_Railway type Gauge.
- Otis_Elevating_Railway type Railroad.
- Otis_Elevating_Railway type Range.
- Otis_Elevating_Railway comment "The Otis Elevating Railway was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge cable funicular railroad to the Catskill Mountain House in Palenville, New York. For the first 64 years of its existence, the Catskill Mountain House was accessible only by a long stage coach from Catskill Landing on the Hudson.".
- Otis_Elevating_Railway label "Otis Elevating Railway".
- Otis_Elevating_Railway sameAs オーティス・エレベーティング鉄道.
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- Otis_Elevating_Railway sameAs Q7108779.
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- Otis_Elevating_Railway wasDerivedFrom Otis_Elevating_Railway?oldid=680617816.
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