Southampton-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives News.....Invention, 1900 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ A RAILROAD BICYCLE. Mr. E. H. Branch, a telegraph operator, has made a bicycle which is claimed to ride well on railroad tracks. Branch lives near Ivor. He affixed an appliance to an ordinary pneumatictired bicycle. There is an axle which goes across the track and connects with a small flanged wheel oh the other side. It is said the train bicycle can attain a speed of eighteen miles an hour and it may do better when it is further perfected. Library of Virginia (LVA), Richmond, VA Virginia Memory [digital collections], Virginia Chronicle [newpaper collections], "The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Vol. 5, No. 11, Apr. 13, 1900, p. 8, col. 1 Additional information: E.H. Branch, appears in the (5 Jun) 1900 Census, in Wakefield District, Sussex Co., VA, as a Telegrapher (0 mos. unemployed), b. Mch 1878, VA, one of 5 boarding with the family of J.H? Rowell. "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MMJZ-X4P : accessed 6 March 2016), citing sheet 3A, family 46, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,729. Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com) [line breaks mine]. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/news/19000413vp.txt