. The Street railway journal . VIEW ALONG THE RACK RAIL D1VISIOJN is an electric railway starting at Pugliano (the upper part ofResina), and extending miles ( km) to the powerbouse and car house. The minimum curve radius is 164 ft.(50 m). The second section, as stated, is a rack road, andruns from the power house to the observatory. Its length is SCENE ALONG THE ELECTRIC RAILWAY long. The roadbed in general is built in accordance with thepractice adopted on the later Swiss mountain railways, withdue consideration, however, to the fact that in autumn and winter there are very severe-rai
. The Street railway journal . VIEW ALONG THE RACK RAIL D1VISIOJN is an electric railway starting at Pugliano (the upper part ofResina), and extending miles ( km) to the powerbouse and car house. The minimum curve radius is 164 ft.(50 m). The second section, as stated, is a rack road, andruns from the power house to the observatory. Its length is SCENE ALONG THE ELECTRIC RAILWAY long. The roadbed in general is built in accordance with thepractice adopted on the later Swiss mountain railways, withdue consideration, however, to the fact that in autumn and winter there are very severe-rain storms, which make itnecessary to make liberal al-lowance for quick surveys made it pos-sible to avoid artificial con-struction to a great supporting walls areconstructed of lava stonesand a mortar made of limeand puzolla earth, a combi-nation which, in time, be-comes as hard as stone andpossesses certain hydraulicproperties—in fact, the samematerial has been used inbuilding a large dry-dock int
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