. Electric railway gazette . Several companies then s tabout constructing lines of railways in placeswhich lent themselves the more easily to such en -terprise, but it was never contemplated then thata day would come when even the most insur-mountable obstacles would be conquered, whenthe highest points would be, as it were, stormedand carried, and the deepest chasms then many climbing railways have beenconstructed in the mountains of Switzerland—funicular railways and others of the rack-railtype. The railway up the Righi, with its inter-locking wheels, sufficiently demonstrated
. Electric railway gazette . Several companies then s tabout constructing lines of railways in placeswhich lent themselves the more easily to such en -terprise, but it was never contemplated then thata day would come when even the most insur-mountable obstacles would be conquered, whenthe highest points would be, as it were, stormedand carried, and the deepest chasms then many climbing railways have beenconstructed in the mountains of Switzerland—funicular railways and others of the rack-railtype. The railway up the Righi, with its inter-locking wheels, sufficiently demonstrated the su-periority of the latter system, whether regardedfrom a practical point of view or in the light ofsuch a purely personal point of view as safety, but every luxury possible, containing dining-roomsand miniature bed-rooms like cabins on elevator to the summit of the Jungfrauconsists of an enormous tube fitted into thevertical hole sunk in the rock. Within thisiron tube the cage ascends and descends, wotted.
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