Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1917 — Swiss Railroad Lines. [ARTICLE]

Swiss Railroad Lines.

-Railroads were introduced in Switzerland In 1844 with the construction of the Basel-St. Ludwig line. The Zurich-Baden line followed in 1847, By 1860 there .were 1.000 kilometers (621 miles) of normal-gauge lines in use. and in 1912 their length reached 3,500 kilometers (2,175 miles).