Tourist attraction
Zahnradbahn Vitznau - Rigi Kulm
Steep rack-and-pinion railway climbing over a thousand meters to a panoramic alpine summit.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Zahnradbahn Vitznau-Rigi Kulm in Vitznau, on Lake Lucerne, follows engineer Niklaus Riggenbach and the toothed rack-rail system he patented to conquer slopes ordinary trains could never climb. It centers on eighteen seventy, the year his invention faced its first real mountain test on Rigi, and the skepticism of investors who doubted a train could grip its way up a gradient of one in four. You will hear what a nervous journalist noticed once the first car began to move.
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