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Albert Wort (1875-1941) was an inventor and railroad enthusiast from Woodstock, New Brunswick.

He began his inventing career early. At the age of 10, he built a model of a grasshopper valve gear that was later used in locomotives. On Sept. 28, 1939, he was enrolled as a member of the Chartered Institute of American Inventors and the New York Inventors Club for this invention.

He hand-built a set of miniature ride-able trains over 16 years, consisting of four locomotives, passenger cars, coal tenders, a roundhouse and turntable, and freight cars. He laid a mile of track with a gauge of on Island Park, Woodstock, N.B. The trains took paying passengers around the island at five cents a circuit during the summers of 1921 to 1938.

Ancestry
He was a descendant of United Empire Loyalists Conrad & Mary (Small) Wort, who were exiled to Carleton, Saint John, N.B. in 1782 from New York.