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Show Very Steep Railway. What claims to be the steepest rail- way ilne In the world is that recently opened near Bozen. Jn the Tyrol. Tho Mendel railway, with a gradient of 64 in 100. and the Vcsuvlan, with 63. have hitherto held the record. But the new line In Us steepest part rises 70 In 100 and in other paits Gt. It leads up the mountaiueide to Vlr-gll Vlr-gll Terrace, on the River Elsach. Th system employed Is that of the electrical elec-trical wire rope and the accent Is made at the rate of five feet a second, or five minutes for the whole distance' The ear of four compartments carriei T;2 passengers. j |