The Wikipedia article on rack railways, covering the various rack and pinion systems and their history from the Middleton Railway in 1812 through the mountain rack railways of the 19th century.
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PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rack_railway
Source TypeReference Work
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Reliability Tier2
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Wikipedia: Rack Railway
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- Editorial judgment: tertiary encyclopedia, tier matches sibling Wikipedia sources on this atlas
- Editorial classification: general-purpose online encyclopedia
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