. The adventures of a tropical tramp. NATIVE HOUSE IN THE ANDES. THE HIGHEST AND MOST PICTURESQIE RAILWAY IN THE WORLD Over the Worlds Highest Railway 33 go galloping away with the same flat-footed gaUlop. Leaving San Bartolome, with its one row ofmud-plastered houses, the train backed away onthe first of the lines 21 zig-zags or style of railroad construction is necessaryin the steep ascent which commences here, andfrom the time one leaves San Bartolome untilone arrives at Ticlio at the top of the mountainrange, one never knows whether he is going :. The train is con
. The adventures of a tropical tramp. NATIVE HOUSE IN THE ANDES. THE HIGHEST AND MOST PICTURESQIE RAILWAY IN THE WORLD Over the Worlds Highest Railway 33 go galloping away with the same flat-footed gaUlop. Leaving San Bartolome, with its one row ofmud-plastered houses, the train backed away onthe first of the lines 21 zig-zags or style of railroad construction is necessaryin the steep ascent which commences here, andfrom the time one leaves San Bartolome untilone arrives at Ticlio at the top of the mountainrange, one never knows whether he is going :. The train is continually backing partway up the mountain, then running forwardagain, until after half an hour of steady ridingone looks down at the same spot he saw severalhundred feet higher. Occasionally for variety,one ascends a long quebrada, circles around, andcomes back on the other side. It seems to thepassenger as though the train were merely cut-ting geometric figures up and down the hillside,yet, it is always ascending, always getting a littlecloser to its objective
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