. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. ZIGZAG RAILWAY IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS. results—that of having two trains pass each other on a single-track rail-way. It is done in this way : At the end of each zigzag there is a pieceof level track sufficiently long to hold two trains. The engineer of adescending train sees an ascending one on the zigzag below ; he runshis train out to the end of
. The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. ZIGZAG RAILWAY IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS. results—that of having two trains pass each other on a single-track rail-way. It is done in this way : At the end of each zigzag there is a pieceof level track sufficiently long to hold two trains. The engineer of adescending train sees an ascending one on the zigzag below ; he runshis train out to the end of a level, and there waits until the ascendingone has entered the same level, reversed its course, and gone on its wayupward. One of the railway managers said to Doctor Bronson. Thereisnt any double track here at all, and yet, you see, two trains can pass 442 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. each other without the least difficulty. The ends of our zigzags serveas switches, thats all. You have no idea what a salubrious region this is, said one of thepassengers to whom they had been introduced by a friend who came tosee them off. The air is wonderfully bracing, so much so that it is a. THE BLUE MOUNTAINS. common saying, Nobody -ever dies in the Blue Mountains unless he iskilled by accident or blown away. Many people live to more than ahundred years old; there is an authentic account of a man who cele-brated his one hundred and tenth birthday six months before he died,and another Avho was cut off by intemperate habits when he was onlyone hundred and one. This man used to speak of a neighbor who livedto be one hundred and eight years old and hadnt an unsound tooth inhis head, when he Avas killed by the kick of a vicious horse. The Blue Mountains are a part of the great dividing range alreadydescribed in our account of the visit to Queensland. Of late years theyhave rapidly grown in favor as a pleasure resort, and thousands of theinhabitants of Sydney go there to escape the heat o
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