QUEER RAILWAY
Steel ropes suspended high' up above the water, between steel towers three-quarters of a mile apart, with little twelve-sided steel carriages running along in mid-air — such is the funny aerial railway connecting San Sebastian with Mount Montjuich. This strange but most successful engineering feat was begun in 1930 and has now been finished. it bridges a wide stretch of water through which the biggest ships pass, and at no part of the, wire railroad is it less than 200 feet above sea level. There are only four cars, each one attached to the endless steel wire that runs back and forth between the two end towers. Each little car takes 20 passengers and travels at eight miles an hour, and each car is connected by telephone, not only with ths other cars, but with the three stations at the top of the towers.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 290, 2 August 1932, Page 3
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