One man drove the horses, while another, or a team of two, operated the gun.
But he estimated that half the teams were operating at a loss.
The team operated each season from 1876-77 until 1878-79, winning the Cup in their final year.
The team hadn't operated together for very long, but they'd been more than unusually compatible.
The problem, though, was that the team had been operating on faulty intelligence.
At the track itself, the team operates from a large mobile facility.
The team also operate vehicles for demonstrations during the year.
Each 18-player team operates with a salary cap of $834,500.
Prior to that, each team essentially operated as its own business outside of the league.
Prior to the 2010 expansion, only four teams operated in the West.