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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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SWITCHBACK, a form of pleasure railway, built over alternate descents and ascents, the train or car first gathering momentum by running down an incline, and surmounting by means of this a lesser ascent. Switchbacks were originally merely an imitation, using ca ...

Vol. 26, pp. 238-238 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

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