!!!Bergbahnen

Mountain Railways, local rack railways, funicular railways or 
cableways ( Cableways) for the transport of both passengers and 
freight to high-lying places which are not integrated into the traffic 
system (Unlike  Alpine Railways), they frequently have to overcome 
very steep gradients.) The Achensee mountain railway (1889) is the 
oldest rack railway in Europe. Other rack railways operate between 
Puchberg mountain and the mountain station on Hochschneeberg mountain 
(province of Lower Austria) and between St. Wolfgang and the top of 
Schafberg mountain (province of Upper Austria). In the year 1992, 
these two railways transported altogether 390,793 persons. In earlier 
days locomotives were powered by steam generated by the combustion of 
coal. Steam locomotives are nowadays powered by oil, other railcoaches 
are powered by diesel engines. The steepest adhesion railway operates 
between Linz-Urfahr and Poestlingberg mountain. The oldest funicular 
railways give access to Hohensalzburg Castle (railway built 1892), to 
Schlossberg Hill in Graz and to the Hungerburg plateau above 
Innsbruck. Modern-day funicular railways with high passenger capacity 
are built in many of Austria's big ski resorts.


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