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Meigs Elevated Railway

experimental monorail once built in East Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Meigs Elevated Railway

Summary

Meigs Elevated Railway is a railway[1].

Key Facts

  • Meigs Elevated Railway is the creator of Josiah "Joe" Vincent Meigs Sr.[2].
  • Meigs Elevated Railway is located in East Cambridge[3].
  • Meigs Elevated Railway is in the country of United States[4].
  • Meigs Elevated Railway's instance of is recorded as railway[5].
  • Meigs Elevated Railway's Commons category is recorded as Meigs Elevated Railway[6].
  • Meigs Elevated Railway's coordinate location is recorded as {'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2', 'altitude': None, 'latitude': 42.368, 'longitude': -71.0708, 'precision': 0.012158589429612}[7].

Body

Geography

Meigs Elevated Railway is in the country of United States[4]. It is located in East Cambridge[3].

Designation and Status

Meigs Elevated Railway's instance of is recorded as railway[5].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . newspapers.com. newspapers.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Freebase id → /m/0612_n
    State of use → Q30108381
    Coordinate location → {'globe': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2', 'altitude': N
    Country → United States
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ [[Property:P31]]: [[Q187934]]"
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