NOUN
- railway for steep mountains; a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction
How To Use rack railway In A Sentence
- To go over the Andes by rail entailed very steep gradients indeed, and when I come to write about rack railways I will come back to them.
- Mountain lifts: Climb mountains the easy way by chair lift or by rack railway and cable car.
- Since the Nilgiri rack railway was a Swiss invention, the locos that still run it - fitted with extra pistons to work the rack mechanism - were imported from Switzerland.
- Until Beeching there was a twin track railway line along here.
