TRAIN'S 12 MILES AN HOUR
One of the steepest standard gauge railways in the world is in course of construction in the Peruvian Andes. It is intended to run from Cuzco, at an altitude of 11,500 ft, to Quilabamba, a distance of about 150 miles. "Wo were lucky enough," says Mr. Stratford Jolly in his book, "Tho Treasuro Trail," "to take the first passenger train to be run from Cuzco to La Maquina, which has now been renamed Machu Picchu. . . . Tho freight train, which was all that had been running so far, not only had no regular schedule, but charged double first-class fares in order to discourage passengers. There is also a regulation that livestock must be accompanied, so the unfortunate haeiendero must not only pay for his animals, but also double first-class fare for his peones. The seventy miles to La Maquina takes six hours. The climb out of Cuzco. is exceptionally steep. Every few hundred yards the train is run: into a cul-de-sac and reverses up the higher gradient."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1934, Page 9
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171TRAIN'S 12 MILES AN HOUR Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 60, 8 September 1934, Page 9
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