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Brienz Rothorn Bahn ascending Brienzer Rothorn in the Swiss Alps Vall de Núria Rack Railway, Catalonia. A mountain railway is a railway that operates in a mountainous region.It may operate through the mountains by following mountain valleys and tunneling beneath mountain passes, or it may climb a mountain to provide transport to and from the summit.
America's first transcontinental railroad (known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a 1,911-mile (3,075 km) continuous railroad line built between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs, Iowa, with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay. [1]
However, the first plan for a railroad in the Netherlands was launched only shortly after the first railroad opened in Britain. The history of rail transport in the Netherlands can be described in six eras: the period up to 1839 – the first plans were made for a railroad, 1840–1860 – railroads experienced their early expansion,