Popular resorts, and how to reach them . MT. PISGAH PLANE,itch-back Railroad, Mauch Chunk,. 154 POPULAR RESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. as a pleasure route for excursionists. Passenger cars have been substi-tuted; and the same powerful machinery used for coal-cars is nowapplied to the light pleasure traffic. Carriages from the depots and thehotels take passengers to the base of Mt. Pisgah, though it is but ashort distance for those who prefer to walk; and the fine scenery willrepay the effort. The j^^c-^^^ of Mt. Pisgah rises one foot in threefor 2,322 feet. The cars are drawn up by a stationa
Popular resorts, and how to reach them . MT. PISGAH PLANE,itch-back Railroad, Mauch Chunk,. 154 POPULAR RESORTS, AND HOW TO REACH THEM. as a pleasure route for excursionists. Passenger cars have been substi-tuted; and the same powerful machinery used for coal-cars is nowapplied to the light pleasure traffic. Carriages from the depots and thehotels take passengers to the base of Mt. Pisgah, though it is but ashort distance for those who prefer to walk; and the fine scenery willrepay the effort. The j^^c-^^^ of Mt. Pisgah rises one foot in threefor 2,322 feet. The cars are drawn up by a stationary engine on the top,connecting with an iron band six and one-half inches wide, which runsover a drum eighteen feet in diameter. The passenger car is followedby a safety car, supplied with a long iron bar following in a ratchet,which, in case of breakage of engine or bands, securely holds the carsagainst accident; and its efficiency may be judged by the fact thatthere has never yet been an accident. On reaching the summit of , the car starts by its own gravity down the opposite
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