. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . ch Chunk — was by employing (jracilij one way,the grade being sufficient to insure this. Mules were taken down on thetrain to draw the cars back. This was subsequently improved by theconstruction of planes over the intervening elevations, Mt. Pisgah andMt. Jefferson, up which the cars were drawn by stationary engines ontheir summits ; the altitude thus gained being sufficient to turn the grade _ __ to .^iniunitJJi/l, towliich
. Popular resorts, and how to reach them : combining a brief description of the principal summer retreats in the United States, and the routes of travel leading to them . ch Chunk — was by employing (jracilij one way,the grade being sufficient to insure this. Mules were taken down on thetrain to draw the cars back. This was subsequently improved by theconstruction of planes over the intervening elevations, Mt. Pisgah andMt. Jefferson, up which the cars were drawn by stationary engines ontheir summits ; the altitude thus gained being sufficient to turn the grade _ __ to .^iniunitJJi/l, towliich placethe cars re-t u r n e d bytheir owng r a V i t meansof t r a n s-portation an-swered wellits jiurposeuntil theg r e a t de-mand forthe anthra-cite coal ofthe ? L e-high Avar-vanted theconstructionof a steamrailroa d.—the cuttingof solid rocksasunder, andpiercing theMT. PISGAH PLANE mountain ?Switch-cack Railroad, Mauch Chunk, Penn barriers with tunnels. The success of this last enterprise relieved the Switch-back,or, more properly, Gravity Road; but the opening of this region atthis time as a popular resort suggested the use of the Switch-back.
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