Fancy railways
Rail engineering has always been the solution, Particularly interesting solutions have always been proposed when laying mountain roads.
The highest mountain in the world is the Qinghai-Tibet Railway. Part of the route to Lhasa is located at an altitude of more than 5,000 m, Therefore, cars are also equipped with special oxygen supply devices, and for each passenger there is an individual oxygen mask.
There is an unusual railway in Peru, It is the Lima-Huancayo-Huanvelica road, The engineers who built the road found special return dead ends,They allow you to cleverly turn corners with large slopes: the train abuts the first dead end, then slides its tail towards the other, then continues to move in the right direction.
In Russia, unusual engineering solutions were required for the Baikal-Amur railway, Here, for example, is the famous "Devil's Bridge" - a high viaduct on two-level supports. It is curved and leads to an increase at the same time, A total of 3,901 bridges were built in Bama.
The coolest railway in Europe is in Switzerland, In the true sense of the term: its bias in places is 48%, The road is called Pilatusban. You can buy a train ticket and climb to a height of 2133 m, to the top of Pilatus mountain.
Fancy railways
In Switzerland, there is one of the most picturesque routes in the world - the Rhetian Railway, It is considered the emblem of Switzerland and crosses the most beautiful regions of the Alps, through 383 bridges and 84 tunnels,The two most beautiful sections of this route are inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
And there is also the most direct route in the world, which is listed in the Guinness Book of Records, It was built in the desert lowlands of Australia and over 500 km it does not have a single turn.
There is also a "road to the ends of the earth", It is located in Argentina, in the National Park of the "Burning Land". Its gauge is only 50 cm (in our narrow gauge, for example, 75 cm wide), Exactly, there is a station called "Doomsday", which is very popular with tourists, And they prefer to buy a train ticket, rather than going to the park by road, even if it's cheaper.
There are unusual hybrids in the history of railways, for example, a hybrid of ferry and tram, At the beginning of the 20th century, he transported passengers to the United Kingdom,The relief did not allow the route from Brighton to Rottingdin by land, and the rails were spread out at the bottom of the sea.
A 4-foot platform was placed on the rails, each foot "mounted" on a 4-wheeled cart, All the wheels were covered with a casing with a scraper which cleaned the rails of the algae.,miracle was called Daddy Long Legs and was likened to a sea ship, so on deck there was everything that was meant: life rings, a ship's bell, a flag and a boat. And the crew included a sailor.
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