How do you stop this contraption?

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3920231128256414&set=a.1829781120634769

there are, or have been, a lot of magazines. Some railroad companies have even had their own. I found one that had a deep dive into the history of the ghost town a mile from where I grew up

these images are from the Fall 1997 "Soo Line Historical and Technical Society" magazine which was last published in the Spring of 2023 https://www.sooline.org/WP/

rich kids in Victorian era 1886 city park, Isabel Harter rides a tricycle while her sister Nellie rolls a hoop in Fort Greene.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/new-york-city-photographs-wallace-levison

on the new tv show Dickinson, about the teenage life of Emily Dickinson, one of my favorite poets - they are having a period perfect ball, mostly, and one character has a hobby horse! I've never seen one on tv

 

Emily Dickinson lived from 1830 to 1886, and the collection of her poems is one of my prized books, leather bound and gold edged, and someone who owned it long ago pressed violas between the pages

I haven't yet added her poems to my poetry blog https://better-than-palgrave.blogspot.com/ because I've been too preoccupied with this car blog

By the way, Mikhail Baryshnikov's daughter plays Emily's sister, and Jane Krakowski plays her mom, Hailee Stansfield plays Emily,  terrifically! https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8518136/

from an interesting Tumblr of beautiful women, cabins, and teddy bears

https://the-man-195.tumblr.com/

Man with hand-powered tricycle, Raton, New Mexico 1910-1925. I don't think I've ever seen a tricycle like this

http://pogphotoarchives.tumblr.com/post/182924337362/man-with-hand-powered-tricycle-raton-new-mexico#notes

1878 Howe

I believe we call this a velocipede

https://tmblr.co/Zqou6tejl7ps

kids and velocipedes

This picture is from the Latvian National History archive

https://www.cyclechic.co.uk/blog/2015/01/vintage-wednesday-children-bicycles.html

The Florida bicycle-boat. From Judge’s Library, A Monthly Magazine of Fun 1887.

http://www.oneletterwords.com/weblog/?id=30161
https://tmblr.co/Zqou6t2W1USlq
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006837548

Judge was a weekly satirical magazine published in the United States from 1881 to 1947.

It was launched by former "Puck" illustrator James A. Wales, who sold the magazine in 1885 to William J. Arkell.

Arkell managed to lure Bernard Gilliam from "Puck" and made him a full partner at "Judge."

railway velocipedes

https://books.google.ca/books?id=QIo4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA619&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false

The Rudge "Coventry" Rotary Tandem Tricycle: in Bedford 1882

the front and back tires were hand controlled, and could be angled to make for tighter turning distance. Picture taken in July 1890

looking like the crazy old English gent in Jumanji, if you can imagine him on holiday

Snappy velocipede there 'guvna! Thomas Wentworth Higginson and daughter, ca. 1884

The Rudge "Coventry" Rotary Tandem Tricycle: 1884

Found on a source of constant surprises, https://www.facebook.com/groups/yachtclubdesavionsdelaroute/?fref=nf 

kids and cars, some in pedal cars

the windmill in the background is Moulin de la Galette, in Montmartre France, the street is rue Lepic.

why the old man is carrying a scythe is a mystery, but he's riding on a velocipede

All from https://www.facebook.com/pages/Good-old-days/598187423627161

Great photos from the Good Old Days Facebook page

Focus for a moment on the two busses' tires, and how drastically different they are. tall and narrow, shorter and wider, with rubber that is segmented.. one horse drawn (poor tired horse!)

airplanes and gliders

Airplane with engine running on a White truck in Preparedness parade in New York City or Chicago 1916

All from https://www.facebook.com/pages/Good-old-days/598187423627161

a velocipede built for 3, known as a Sociable

Found on https://www.facebook.com/groups/yachtclubdesavionsdelaroute/