. The Street railway journal . 40 ft.)vertically. The road construction, however, is consider-ably lighter than the Mendel Railway because the cars aresmaller and the braking stress on the track less. The ex-periments in automatic vacuum braking made on the 70per cent grade showed that loaded cars freed from thecable could be stopped without shockwithin a length of meters (about4 ft.). The line begins at the southern lim-it of the Bozen, connecting at thelower end with a steam railroad. Itextends westerly over a curve of 250meters (820 ft.) radius in its lowerhalf to the Virgl observatory,
. The Street railway journal . 40 ft.)vertically. The road construction, however, is consider-ably lighter than the Mendel Railway because the cars aresmaller and the braking stress on the track less. The ex-periments in automatic vacuum braking made on the 70per cent grade showed that loaded cars freed from thecable could be stopped without shockwithin a length of meters (about4 ft.). The line begins at the southern lim-it of the Bozen, connecting at thelower end with a steam railroad. Itextends westerly over a curve of 250meters (820 ft.) radius in its lowerhalf to the Virgl observatory, whichcontains a large restaurant. Thepopularity of this place as a touristresort appears from the fact that evenin the dull autumn season 500 to 1000passengers were carried every Sun-day. The line was opened Nov. 20,1907. Fully 75 per cent of the railway iscut through the porphyritic rock ofwhich the mountain is only special work below the sid-ing shown is a concrete viaduct 24meters (about 78 ft.) long and a de-.
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