How the world travels . WHITE SUDAN TRAIN. which it was attached were overtaken by another,there would be no collision, for the second enginewould run up the sloping roof and travel alongon the top of the slower train. Nowadays, railway travelling has become muchsafer and also more luxurious, and our trains, withtheir sleeping berths and restaurant cars, would YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY 109. MOUNTAIN RAILWAY have been considered marvels by the early pas-sengers who crowded contentedly into the jolting no HOW THE WORLD TRAVELS open trucks of 1839. One of the most interest-ing of modern trains is to b
How the world travels . WHITE SUDAN TRAIN. which it was attached were overtaken by another,there would be no collision, for the second enginewould run up the sloping roof and travel alongon the top of the slower train. Nowadays, railway travelling has become muchsafer and also more luxurious, and our trains, withtheir sleeping berths and restaurant cars, would YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY 109. MOUNTAIN RAILWAY have been considered marvels by the early pas-sengers who crowded contentedly into the jolting no HOW THE WORLD TRAVELS open trucks of 1839. One of the most interest-ing of modern trains is to be seen on the Sudanhne. It is painted white for the sake of coolnessand has wooden Venetian bUnds instead ofwindows. At first it was considered impossible for railwaysto be constructed except on level ground, but diffi-culties were gradually overcome and for manyyears there have been trains running up the Rigiand other mountains. Now a line has been madeto the summit of the Jung Frau, which is overthirteen thousand feet high, and by it tourists canbe taken far into the region of perpetual snow. Towards the end of the nineteenth century anew power began to be used, and we hear of loco-motives driven not by steam but by , although steam has not been ousted fromthe field, there are many electric trains, and inalmost every city of Europe electric trams runthrough the
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