Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1915 — NEW ALPINE ROAD BUILDING [ARTICLE]

NEW ALPINE ROAD BUILDING

Will Be the Longest Yet Constructed and Bhould Prove a Delight to Tourists. The longest Alpine railroad in existence will run from Brieg, near the Italian border, to Dlsentis and will thus connect the former with the Federal Swiss lines. Beginning at the end of the Simplon tunnel, at 2,200 feet above sea level, this remarkable road passes directly over the Saint Gothard tunnel as a surface road at 4,700 feet above sea level and rises at one point to 7,100 feet. With a branch of an existing road, the new line will connect Brieg with Saint Moritz, between which points daily runs will be made each way and afford tourists a route of surpassing beauty through the hitherto remote and little known region of the upper Rhone and past the headwaters of the upper Rhine. —Scientific American.