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Show Very Steep Railway. What claims to bo the steepest railway rail-way line in the world Is that recently opened near Bozen, In. the Tyrol. The Mendel railway, with a gradient of 61 In 100, and the Vesuvlan, with G3, have hitherto held tho record. But the new line In Its steepest part rises 70 in 100 and in other parts 6S. It leads up the mountainside to Virgil Vir-gil Terrace, on the River Elsach. The system emplojcd Is that of the electrical elec-trical wire rope and the ascent Is made at the rate of Ave feet a second, or five minutes for the whole distance. The c.ir of four compartments carries 32 passengers. |