Adliswil-Felsenegg cable car
Two Swiss-made cabins hauling commuters up a wooded ridge, born as relics of a 1939 national exhibition's record-breaking lake crossing.
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The guide to the Adliswil-Felsenegg cable car in Zurich starts across open water, not on this hillside: cabins built for a 1939 national exhibition called the Landi, staged as Switzerland's answer to Nazi Germany pressing at its borders. It follows the fair's showpiece, a cable car strung across Lake Zurich with pylons set a world-record distance apart, and the wave of visitors who rode it as something close to a pilgrimage. Listen for how two of those very cabins ended up hauling grocery bags and schoolbags up this same wooded ridge once the fair closed.
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