The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-11
$4,000 passengers. with all their frelght.se,
u.ar. elaral.l inn. the -.lr L..is.l.ts

10, 900 passengers. with all their freightzse,
were elevated into the .oity heights.
Zurich, with population Of 60,0o, Is =
great raj way csnsef. A haU-'s ride gpoa
ore q, six daily trains briaes the tsaysler
from ylence 20 Elg s'atloa. Next, the
seatues Nelcetia. WIKI Is elyiuc ~ sixty
horse power, conveys tsc passenger 20 Ar,n
Ia IA rs i've minutes. through he ro-
nlant.c Lake az Xlg, gp1a zoe chores a.
which lte historic towers, chapels, han'l-
some villas, gat ll sea,s "a! the gentry, IN
the inidsi of spirrGh opharts Ia the
near distance tine snowy peaks aud valleys
of tne Alps lom pleasing background.
Arth is 81 old toNn whose history goes
back 90 the elskih century, Enl
whose present population Is about
5000 IL Is fsom this point that the Ar,h-
Rigi railway has is starting point. But a
word ihou, the mountains 10 be assembled.
Rigi consists of a grOup OF mountains, the
highest % which y Rigi hulu; the other
peaks are Hocheuh, ROthstock, Dess-n,
ScheideCk, IOhaCksgutsCh and Schiit.
Within the circuit OF these mountains, ana
upon the slopes, rep0ss thirteen villages
ana towns. Eigi Kulm = the Wcsl north
ern and h'ghest peak OF tie II ap. Ii rises
like distinct pyramid, audilg free on al
AIDE and declining sh1rp.y TO the west {,
north. and east. ithas a. the summit a small
elevated plain, oyergrown with turf, upon
which We scarcely set foot when the infinite
panorama OF Alpine scenery bursts upon
our eyes. No rem nor tongue can fully de-
sCrlnr the graudeuRof the vast eXpanss laid
open before the traveller, who is repaid in
iuIl for all the roughness of his journey to
reach il,
rHR SUMMIT OF RiGI,
1850 metres Z ljl feet high, is reached
now bv railway. The tain OF engine AMI
cars gain the he ght by winding up per
petual ascent, creeping sometimes by the
SIDE u prcCipice, then through a tunnel,
then up an inciued bridge las shown in ono
of the cuts until at last steam has elevated
the passenger 20 height equ,l 10 that OF
100 of the loit'est buildings piled one upon
the other. The ascent is accomplished by
the means OF cogsed wheels connected with
the aEles OF the engine MASKING into a
coggod wrought iron rail WHICH Is laid
between two rails Of the ordinary pattern,
although of lighter weight This center
rail consists Of doublc-roled rails. to which
wroueht-lrOn teeth are riTlted. The center
rail is nearly = feet long, connected by
iish-plates and sore we'd to The slsepers. The
latter resting on longitudinal beams, iornl
an immense ladder, mp which the engine
climbs and descends tooth by tooth. The
sloepers are 0i feet long and placed so inches
apar'. The rails are Of the accepted gauge,
i. o., 4 feet s! inches apart.
In gaining its lofty height the road wind.
IN ana out, but always upward, through 6
course OF q little more tuan six mi eg. The
gradients average 1873 feet per 100, /. o., il
going lCO 20. tie height gained is 10. feet
but AT tunes this is Increased ~ % feat il
100, butno point exceeds d '- rr-~, ton
Tho engine employed is luJ.hursc mower
and is SO built that it incines ten degree,
The weight, with Goa and water is perhapI
eighteen or Twenty tonB- The carriages ar,
open at both ends and only provided Will
curtains as protection from the san ant
lain,
Each passenger coach is provided with
cog'whcel on the front aXel with a brake)
which Runs freely in The toothed rail whc,
the brake in relaxed, but when it is apple,
stops the car at once by its crime.
On the mountain railway there are n,
couplings used between the engine and IN,
ca7s, 80 that every carriage can, like tn,
locomotive, be stopped independently
Extra rlcans are employed FOR safety: Is,
| the engineers brake works directly upOl
the era k axle; I'D, The tirtman's brake
which works upoI the forward brake axle
Sd, the air brake; It'll, the steam may b,
reversed. Hence the traveller need not bl
unnecessarily fearful, although it must b,
confessed that 1t tries the nerves al times [,
make the ascent.
The time required is one hour and thirty
minutes To make the ascent and the sam,
| period IS used III returning from the ton IL
the bottom Steam.