. The Maine central. A journal of travel . ing the exertion of a walk through the train, which, by the way,consists of but one car placed ahead of the locomotive. A train of three cars will be runin three sections. The locomotive works continually in a quick, jerky exhaust, for thecylinders are very small and the stroke is short. What is peculiar in this connection is thatsteam is worked on the descent with the same regularity and evident power as upon theascent. Somewhere in the year 1867 or iS58 Sylvester Marsh of Littleton, New Hampshire, wasquietly pushing his new enterprise, the Mt. Washi
. The Maine central. A journal of travel . ing the exertion of a walk through the train, which, by the way,consists of but one car placed ahead of the locomotive. A train of three cars will be runin three sections. The locomotive works continually in a quick, jerky exhaust, for thecylinders are very small and the stroke is short. What is peculiar in this connection is thatsteam is worked on the descent with the same regularity and evident power as upon theascent. Somewhere in the year 1867 or iS58 Sylvester Marsh of Littleton, New Hampshire, wasquietly pushing his new enterprise, the Mt. Washington Railway from the base to the sum-mit of the crown of New England. He and his was the pioneer of all the worlds more re-cent rack-railways, and his overcame the most stupendous grades. The Mt. Washington enterprise was well timed for the Swiss Republic. Their repre-sentative in Washington had sent them quietly a report of what Marsh was doing, andthe opinion was that if it would pay to run a railway up Mount Washington there would be. 254 THE MAINE CENTRAL tenfold less risk in doing thesame thing on the Rigi, thatmost renowned and most fre-quented elevation of the the spring of 1S69 an engi-neer left for America to pre-pare a minute professional re-port on Marshs necessary capital for theRigi Railway was soon after-wards secured and operationswere commenced. Thus wasintroduced the ladder-railin Europe in the Vitznau-RigiRailroad, which was openedin 1S71. All the details of thisline are nothing but modifiedcopies of the Mount Washing-ton road, like the latter, also, itis essentially a pleasure line,serving to convey tourists upand down the mountain immense financial success of the Rigi Railway, together with the fact that thous-ands upon thousands from all parts of the civilized world assisted every year to spread thefame of that remarkable spectacle of the puffing locomotive ou the mountain side, soon ledto the construction of other rack-r
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