2-709-057 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Rigi railway, Vitznau, Switzerland, 1895. The Rigi Railways are a system of toothed racks set between the tracks interlocking with cogwheels fitted under the locomotives. The Vitznau-Rigi Railway was the first mountain railway using rack and pinion technology, the gradient at some points being 1 in 4, (25%). From "Round the World in Pictures and Photographs: From London Bridge to Charing Cross via Yokohama and Chicago". [George Newnes Ltd, London, 1895]