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A pit pony, otherwise known as a mining horse, [1] was a horse, pony or mule commonly used underground in mines from the mid-18th until the mid-20th century. The term "pony" was sometimes broadly applied to any equine working underground.
Horse ferry in Chillicothe, Ohio in 1900. Two horses for power, with Capt. Horace McElfresh and son. A team boat, horse boat, or horse ferry, is a watercraft powered by horses or mules, generally using a treadmill, which serves as a horse engine. [1] [2] Team boats were popular as ferries in the United States from the mid-1810s to the 1850s.
A part of the Quartermaster Corps, the U.S. Army Remount Service provided horses (and later mules and dogs) as remounts to U.S. Army units. Evolving from both the Remount Service of the Quartermaster Corps and a general horse-breeding program under the control of the Department of Agriculture , the Remount Service began systematically breeding ...
The fur companies assembled teamster-driven mule trains which carried whiskey and supplies to a pre-announced location each spring-summer and set up a trading fair (the rendezvous). At the end of the rendezvous, the teamsters packed the furs out, either to Fort Vancouver in the Pacific Northwest for the British companies or to one of the ...
Twenty-mule-team wagons on display in Death Valley, California The vehicles The carriage assembly. In 1877, six years before twenty-mule teams would be introduced in Death Valley, Scientific American reported that Francis Marion Smith and his brother had shipped their company's borax in a 30-ton load using two large wagons, with a third wagon for food and water, drawn by a 24-mule team over a ...
A packhorse, pack horse, or sumpter refers to a horse, mule, donkey, or pony used to carry goods on its back, usually in sidebags or panniers. Typically packhorses are used to cross difficult terrain, where the absence of roads prevents the use of wheeled vehicles. Use of packhorses dates from the Neolithic period to the present day.
A horse, towing a boat with a rope from the towpath, could pull fifty times as much cargo as it could pull in a cart or wagon on roads. In the early days of the Canal Age, from about 1740, all boats and barges were towed by horse, mule, hinny, pony or sometimes a pair of donkeys. Many of the surviving buildings and structures had been designed ...
Operated with horses for first six months after construction before locomotives were available Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia: 1873–1876 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) Chile Mule-drawn Douglas Bay Horse Tramway: 1876–present 3 ft (914 mm) Douglas, Isle of Man: Shires and Clydesdales are used to pull a fleet of original tramcars along the seafront.