A Mountain Electric Railway.
Oxe of the most interesting achievements in modern engineering is the electric mountain railway recently opened to the public at the Burgenstock, near "Lucerne. Tha rails describe one grand curve formed on an angle of 112 degrees, and the system is such that the journey is made as steadily and smoothly as upon any of the straight funicular lines. The Burgan stock is almost perpendicular — from the shore of Lake Lucerne the Burgenstock is 1330 feet, and it is 2800 feet above the le,vel of the sea. The total length of the lino is 938 metres, and it commences .w.ityi a gradient of 32 per cent., which is increased to 58 percent, after the first 400 metres, this being maintained for the rest of the journey. A single pair of rails is used throughout, and the motive power, electricity, is generated by two dynamos, each of 25 horse ■ power, which are worked by a water wheel of nominally 125 hors,e-po\yer, , erected upon the River Aar at its mouth at.Buochs, three miles away, 'the electric current being conducted by*mean3 of insulated copper wires. The loss- in transmission is estimated at 25 percent. * - ,
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 408, 5 October 1889, Page 6
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195A Mountain Electric Railway. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 408, 5 October 1889, Page 6
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