 | A rack railway (also rack-and-pinion railway, cog railway, or cogwheel railway) is a steep grade railway with a toothed rack rail, usually between the... 31 KB (3,734 words) - 15:28, 3 April 2024 |
 | pinion. For example, in a rack railway, the rotation of a pinion mounted on a locomotive or a railroad car engages a rack, usually placed between the... 8 KB (1,064 words) - 16:09, 4 December 2023 |
 | The Montserrat Rack Railway (Spanish and Catalan: Cremallera de Montserrat, IPA: [kɾəməˈʎeɾə ðə munsəˈrat]) is a mountain railway line north-west of Barcelona... 7 KB (725 words) - 13:56, 24 February 2024 |
 | 1908. The railway is operated by the Southern Railway and is the only rack railway in India. The railway relies on its fleet of steam locomotives. NMR... 15 KB (1,433 words) - 23:44, 26 March 2024 |
 | Stuttgart Rack Railway (German: Zahnradbahn Stuttgart) is an electric rack railway in Stuttgart, Germany. It is the only urban rack railway in Germany... 9 KB (1,025 words) - 20:34, 25 January 2024 |
 | The Corcovado Rack Railway (Portuguese: Trem do Corcovado) is a mountain rack railway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from Cosme Velho to the summit of Corcovado... 8 KB (498 words) - 13:33, 23 December 2023 |
list of rack railways, both operating and closed. Lengue gorge. on Benguela railway – 1906. 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge. Transandine Railway between Mendoza... 16 KB (1,676 words) - 12:35, 23 February 2024 |
 | The Pilatus Railway (German: Pilatusbahn, PB) is a mountain railway in Switzerland and the steepest rack railway in the world, with a maximum gradient... 10 KB (983 words) - 23:11, 21 February 2024 |
 | Railway (SMR; Welsh: Rheilffordd yr Wyddfa) is a narrow gauge rack-and-pinion mountain railway in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It is a tourist railway that... 54 KB (5,918 words) - 03:09, 7 April 2024 |
 | Washington Cog Railway, also known as the Cog, is the world's first mountain-climbing cog railway (rack-and-pinion railway). The railway climbs Mount Washington... 34 KB (3,352 words) - 19:23, 16 January 2024 |
 | The Jungfrau Railway (German: Jungfraubahn, pronounced [ˈjʊŋfʁaʊ̯ˌbaːn] , JB) is a mountain rack railway in the Bernese Alps, Switzerland, connecting... 17 KB (1,584 words) - 14:00, 19 January 2024 |
Look up rack or racks in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rack or racks may refer to: Amp rack, short for amplifier rack, a piece of furniture in which... 3 KB (376 words) - 01:15, 10 February 2024 |
 | Mountain Railway Mt Morgan Rack Railway – abandoned in 1955. Skitube Alpine Railway West Coast Wilderness Railway Achensee Railway Arlberg Railway Mariazell... 14 KB (1,041 words) - 20:07, 23 August 2023 |
 | Train (redirect from Railway train) operation. Monorails operate on a single rail, while funiculars and rack railways are uniquely designed to traverse steep slopes. Experimental trains... 61 KB (6,248 words) - 05:53, 1 March 2024 |
 | Meiringen and Brienz, and passes over the Brünig Pass, using sections of rack railway to overcome the gradients, but with most of the line operated by normal... 15 KB (1,455 words) - 16:55, 22 November 2022 |
 | metre gauge rack railway in the Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu was opened in 1908 and is the only operational rack railway in India. These railways operate with... 134 KB (9,047 words) - 01:50, 28 April 2024 |
 | The Brienz Rothorn Railway (German: Brienz Rothorn Bahn, BRB) is a tourist rack railway in Switzerland, which climbs from Brienz, at the eastern end of... 13 KB (882 words) - 21:51, 26 October 2023 |
 | Qingzang railway in China and Tibet, opened in 2006, is at 5,068 m (16,627 feet). In Switzerland, the Jungfraubahn (JB) is a 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) rack railway... 4 KB (338 words) - 14:16, 1 April 2024 |
 | traction on the rails at grades steeper than 10%, so the railway would need to use a cog and rack system to help pull trains up the mountain and control... 25 KB (2,039 words) - 16:28, 16 July 2023 |
 | Wendelstein Rack Railway (German: Wendelsteinbahn), sometimes just referred to as the Wendelstein Railway, is an electrically-driven metre gauge rack railway (with... 8 KB (794 words) - 16:39, 31 August 2023 |
 | The Drachenfels Railway (German: Drachenfelsbahn) is a rack railway line in the North Rhine-Westphalia region of Germany. The line runs from Königswinter... 7 KB (638 words) - 06:15, 13 February 2024 |
rely on adhesion for climbing, a rack railway may be used, in which a toothed cog wheel engages with a toothed rack rail laid between the tracks. A now... 3 KB (407 words) - 01:18, 3 November 2023 |
 | The Vall de Núria Rack Railway (Catalan: Cremallera de Núria, IPA: [kɾəməˈʎeɾə ðə ˈnuɾiə]) is a mountain railway in the Pyrenees mountains in the north... 10 KB (502 words) - 19:51, 4 February 2024 |
 | Railroad switch (redirect from Railway switch) one side to a central position. Rack-railway switches are as varied as rack-railway technologies. Where use of the rack is optional, as on the Zentralbahn... 60 KB (7,928 words) - 22:11, 27 April 2024 |
mounted vehicles up or down inclines. These include simple rail adhesion, rack railways and cable inclines (including rail mounted water tanks to carry barges)... 19 KB (684 words) - 03:19, 8 March 2024 |
 | arms of Lake Lucerne, in Switzerland. They include two standard gauge rack railways, the Vitznau–Rigi Bahn (VRB) and the Arth–Rigi Bahn (ARB), along with... 19 KB (2,378 words) - 01:42, 2 March 2024 |
 | niche products, such as being one of the last European manufacturers of rack railway rolling stock. Stadler Rail is headquartered at its place of origin in... 31 KB (2,753 words) - 19:44, 26 April 2024 |
 | best known rack railways are built to it. Six of these are in Switzerland, including the world's steepest rack line (the Pilatus Railway) and the world's... 4 KB (196 words) - 05:35, 20 January 2022 |
 | Sodor (fictional island) (redirect from Skarloey Railway) are three narrow-gauge railways: the Skarloey Railway, the rack-and-pinion Culdee Fell Mountain Railway, and the Arlesdale Railway. On the west side of... 15 KB (1,747 words) - 06:30, 17 April 2024 |
 | above sea level and is accessible from the south via a rack railway (the Vall de Núria Rack Railway) or by foot, and from France to the north by footpaths... 6 KB (668 words) - 20:24, 20 February 2024 |