Last Train to Nowhere

Starting in the big cities such as Chicago, IL, and New York, NY, the need of horses and passenger carriages were needed to transport commuters during the nineteenth century. Cities decided the heavy crowds required the need of elevated railroad systems but locomotives and rollingstock that were not too heavy for the trestles and could easily travel over tight curves. The three locomotives were Forney (named after Matthias N. Forney who designed the locomotives in 1866) and were the locomotives used on the elevated railroad. The Manhattan Railway found electric locomotives more modern and economical than steam, so they sold over three hundred locomotives and three were sold to the Council City and Solomon River Railroad in 1903 to begin the construction of the railroad. The final stop of all operations on the railroad consisted of three locomotives, seventeen flat cars with the steam shovel and pile-driving attachment, and two passenger cars when the great storm of 1913 came in from the Bering Sea washing out the Solomon River Bridge leaving the train here to sink and rust away. However, the road out here is open during the summer season for visitors to explore!