Center for Appropriate Transport Center for Appropriate Transport The Center for Appropriate Transport (CAT) is a non-profit community center dedicated to bicycles and alternative transport located in Eugene, Oregon, United States. CAT holds publicly funded educational workshops for teaching youth from ages 12 to 21. Within the facility there is a public bicycle repair workspace and a bike machine-shop for the design and manufacture of special-purpose bikes, particularly cargo bikes and recumbents. There is also a bike museum on site, a bike rack-building workshop, and a sewing facility. CAT formerly held the offices of "Oregon Cycling" magazine, which ceased publishing in 2009. CAT is
Meyer locomotive firebox that did not project below the footplate. A number were built for sugarcane railways in South Africa. The last example, maker's number 3024, named "Monarch", was built in 1953 for Bowater's Railway at Sittingbourne in Kent and now resides on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway. Meyer locomotive A Meyer locomotive is a type of articulated locomotive. The design was never as popular as the Garratt or Mallet locomotives. It can be best regarded as 19th Century competition for the early compound Mallet and also the Fairlie articulated designs. The Meyer was the brainchild of Frenchman Jean-Jacques Meyer (1804-1877),