Funimag Issue #28 - June 2007
The First Mountains Railroads in the World and their inclined
planes!
This Funimag Issue is exceptional because I invited
to specialists to speak about two railways which are generally considered
to be the first mountain railways in the world!
There is a big similarity between these two railways... almost at the
same time time , they both had to get over a hill or a mountain with
steam locomotive which had insufficient power at that time. The choosen
solution was the same for the two railways... get over the mountains
with fix systems to pull the trains with
a cable on multiple inclined planes!
It was in the first half of the XIXth century, at the real beginning of
the railways and it was in the United States and in France.
Here is...
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My other web sites
Dampfbahn
Furka Bergstrecke (DFB)
Furka
Cogwheel Steam Railway. I am member of the
Verein Furka-Bergstrecke (VFB) since 1992 and I built this web
site to promote the extraordinary adventure of some men who did
not accept the abandonment of the highest and most fantastic section
of the Furka Oberalp railway after the boring of the Furka tunnel
in 1982.
A cogwheel steam railway which is operated only three
months a year and which climbs up the Furka pass at 2118m in wondeful
landscapes one of the best is the Rhone Glacier.
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to the web site, click here
Märjelen
Aletsch
Glacier. My love and my fascination to the Swiss Alps and
their glaciers attracted me for the third time to the Aletsch Glacier
in the upper Valais. Along the Aletsch Glacier there is a special place
which is more fascinating, this is an intermittent lake called Märjelensee.
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to the web site, click here
Cassagnoles
Le
site officiel de la commune de Cassagnoles (Hérault, France)
. Située à l'extrême ouest du département
de l'Hérault, la commune de Cassagnoles est limitrophe à la
fois avec le département de l'Aude et le département
du Tarn.
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