keywords: altitude train artouste highest rail
text: 'All Aboard' France's Artouste Express, France's highest-altitude train (AFP) AFP - Eighty years ago the Artouste train in the French Pyrenees transported workers and materiel to build a dam at 2000 meters (6500 feet) altitude, but today it ferries tourists for a sometimes hair-raising ride along one of Europe's highest rail lines.