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rack railway
rack railway
noun
- a steep mountain railway having a middle rail fitted with a rack that engages a pinion on the locomotive to provide traction Also calledcog railway
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Word History and Origins
Origin of rack railway1
First recorded in 1880–85
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Example Sentences
The Harz is penetrated by several railways, among them a rack-railway up the Brocken, opened in 1898.
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Here was the very place for a rack railway on some system like Abt's, it seemed to me.
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The main village is connected with Interlaken by a rack railway (13 m.).
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