The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1900-09-21
THE JUNGFRAU RAILWAY.
Description of This wondsrfur- En-
wineerihg Feat by Traveller
4 Work Nos Vet Completed.

We have only gone about half q
mile when the train stops, writes Mr..
"A. billiard Atteridge in his descrip-
ton of the Jungfrau railway, in Cas-
sells Magazine. We are at Roth
stock station, the temporary terminus
of the line. Gletscher station was
opened in the summer of 1898, Roth
stock only in August, 1899. 1t is the
highest railway station in Europe,
1880 feet above the sea, and 1000 feet
higher than the mountain station on
Pilatus. But what a station 1t isl
From the tunnel two cave-like OPEN
ings are cut out to the face of the
precipice. One of these leads to a
rocky platform on the side of the bold.
tower-like crag of the Eiger Roth
stock, which here juts out from the
mountain wall. A small box with
glazed windows is the only building.
II stands in the archway Of rock, and
serves as the stationmaster's Office.
for there is a stationmaster in blue
uniform and bright red cap, with q
stair of one boy to assist him. When
the line has progressed further the
station will be larger and better
equipped, with dining and waiting
rooms cut out of the rock, and a
number of bedrooms for travellers who
do not care to go in one journey UP
to the rarefied air of the higher re-
gions. The tunnel is now being driven
b.yond Rothstock The work of ex-
cavation is done by six boring ma
chimes, driven By electricity. These
cut out number of horizontal bore
holes; and when they have gone deep
enough, cartridges of dynamite are
fixed In them, the borers and the
workmen are withdrawn to O safe
distance, and the fuses are fred by
means OF an electric switchboard.
Then the debris is cleared away, the
sides and roof of the tunnel are rough
ly trimmed to shape with pick and
chisel, and the borers are brought up
for another attack. The rock is SO
hard that even with the best work
ers and the best appliances the adj
vance is slow. There are over six
miles of tunnel yet to be made, be-
sides the excavation work at the sta
tions and the boring of the great
vertical shaft for the elevator at the
top, shaft about $50 feet deep. Ten
years will see it all finished, saws Herr
Gobat. From the Rothstock arches
one has glorious view down the val
ley OF Grindelwald. The permanent
station about half mile further on.
to be known as THE Grindewald Gal.
leEy," will command even better
prospect. The line will then curve
through and round the mountain ia
Eiger station-1o, $50 feet high. This
station will look out upon the fields
OF ice and snow between the Eiger and
the schreckhorn. The railway will
then run under the summit of the
Monch to the Aletsch Guggi Glacier
station, In the rocks above the jung
frau Joch. This station will look
down on the great Aletsch glacier
the largest in Europe; and the giant
pyramid of the Jungfrau will rise
close In front of it. Beyond the sta
ton the line will pass through the
sharp, narrow ridge of rock that sup
ports the ice OF the Jungfrau Joch. 1t
VIII ascend by steep grade in the
heart of the great rocky rib that juts
out eastward from the summit; and
1t will then curve and zigzag round
the cone, always deep in the live rock,
ending at last in a large chamber.
from which the lift will be worked /
which will carry the traveller up the |
last ESQ feet. and from which he will
step out upon the summit platform.