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Pilatus Railway (world's steepest cogwheel railway) Pilatus , also often referred to as Mount Pilatus , is a mountain massif overlooking Lucerne in Central Switzerland . It is composed of several peaks, of which the highest (2,128.5 m [6,983 ft]) is named Tomlishorn .
Crossing Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (Chemin du Roy). Route 138 is a major highway in the Canadian province of Quebec, following the entire north shore of the St. Lawrence River past Montreal to the temporary eastern terminus in Kegashka on the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Commonly called the Dorval Interchange, this exit is the main access to Montreal's Trudeau International Airport. Further east, A-20 crosses the A-13 at its southern terminus, and then, at the St. Pierre Interchange, Route 138 west towards the Mercier Bridge. Just west of downtown Montreal, A-20, A-15, and Route 136 meet at the Turcot ...
A-19 (unbuilt section) in Montreal Mount Royal Autoroute — — Cancelled northern leg of a proposed downtown freeway loop. A-430 — — A-15 / A-30 in Candiac: A-30 in Varennes — — Several kilometers of Route 132 north and south of A-20 was designated A-430 on paper in the 1970s. A-440: 18.2: 11.3 A-13 / R-148 in Laval: A-25 in Laval
All mountain heights and prominences on the list are from the largest-scale maps available. [2]However, heights sometime conflict on different scales. For example, the Fletschhorn is indicated to be 3,993 m (13,100 ft), 3,982 m (13,064 ft), and 3,984 m (13,071 ft) high on the 1:100'000, 1:50'000 and 1:25'000 Swisstopo map, respectively.
The construction of facilities for tourists started in the mid-nineteenth century with the building of hotels and mountain huts (creation of the Swiss Alpine Club in 1863) and the opening of mountain train lines (Rigi in 1873, Pilatus in 1889, Gornergrat in 1898).
The A-10 carries the name Autoroute Bonaventure (Bonaventure Expressway) from its start in Montreal's city centre to the Champlain Bridge.From there until its terminus in Sherbrooke, the A-10 is called the Autoroute des Cantons-de-l'Est (Eastern Townships Expressway), a reference to the historic name given to the region east of Montreal and north of the U.S. border.
The Pilatus Railway (German: Pilatusbahn, PB) is a mountain railway in Switzerland and the steepest rack railway in the world, with a maximum gradient of 48% and an average gradient of 35%.