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Show Very 8tejsp Railway. What claims to be the steepest railway rail-way line In the world is that recently opened near Bozen, In the Tyrol. The Mendel railway, with a gradient ot 64 In 100, and tho Vesuvian, with 63, novo hitherto held the record. But tho new line in Its steepest part rises 70 in 100 and In other parts 66. It leads up the mountainside to Virgil Vir-gil Terrace, on the River Elsach. The system employed Is that of the electrical elec-trical wire ropo and tho ascent Is mado at the rate of live feet a second, or five minutes for the whole distance. The car ot four compartments carries 32 passengers. |