31. In its first 12 months of operation, the Montserrat Rack Railway carried 462, 964 passengers. 32. First built as a rack railway , it was converted to friction operation between 1924 and 1926. 33. They are the only mainline locomotives of the MGB not fitted with cogwheels for rack railway operations. 34. Today 20 employees work on the rack railway , but it is still reliant on equalization payments. 35. The village was destroyed in 1683 by rack railway to the Schneeberg in 1897, tourism became important. 36. The line was opened on 27 April 1884 as a cable driven rack railway of the Agudio system. 37. Two years later a rack railway was built from the village to Breitlauenen in the Schynige Platte mountains. 38. On 17 August 1959 the rack railway was officially closed and work began immediately on lifting the track. 39. The resort is accessible by road and by the Skitube, Australia's only underground rack railway . 40. Various kinds of rack railway were developed to overcome the lack of friction of conventional locomotives on steep gradients.
