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One cow needed two calves to ride this railway

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Physics is an unforgiving mistress, especially when your transit system resembles a giant iron sawhorse. The Lartigue Monorail draped passenger cars over a central rail like saddlebags. If a farmer needed to transport a single cow, the conductor literally had to load two calves on the opposite side just to prevent the whole asymmetrical contraption from capsizing into the Irish mud.

One cow needed two calves to ride this railway
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