RAILROADING IN THE AIR.
In some mountain locations, galleries have been cut directly into the rock, the cliff overhanging the roadway, and the line _ being carried In a horizontal cut or niche in the solid wall. The Oroya and the Chimbote railways in South America demanded constant locations of this character. At many points it was necessary to suspend the persons making the cliff above. The engineer who made these locations tells the writer that on the Oroya line the galleries were often from 100 ft. to 400 ft, above the base of the cliff, and were reached generally from above. Rope ladders were used to great advantage. One 64ft. long and one 106 ft. long covered the usual practice, and were sometimes spliced together. • ' * The ladders could be rolled up and carried about on donkeys or mules. When swung over the side of a cliff and secured at the top, and when practicable at the bottom, they formed a very useful instrument in location and construction.—John Bogart, in Scribner’s Magazine.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 8524, 2 November 1888, Page 3
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