Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1913 — Wonderful Railroads. [ARTICLE]

Wonderful Railroads.

For really exciting railroad travel one must go to South America. There have had to break all Borts of world’s records to connect up the line at all. In Peru there is a railroad which runs between Callao and Lima and on to Oroya. It threads in and out of intricate Andean gorges, and passes along the edges of precipices; and, with its 13 tunnels, it pierces the mountain chain at a height of over 15,000 feet, at one part reaching 15,645 feet. There is another railroad in Peru, that from Arequlpa to Puno on Lake Titioaca, which crosses the mountains by a cutting 14,660 feet above the sea. Neither of these lines is long, yet they both cost considerably over $20,000,000 to construct.