The ascent was made by means of zigzag tracks on the so-called switchback principle.
Rigi, Mount Washington, a switchback railway, and the like would not have been impressive.
Before the tunnel was built you crossed in the open air by a switchback line.
The trapeze of the Flight hung motionless in the air above him; the shrieking Switchback had stopped; and the slight white figure, so precariously perched, turned to all sides of the vast speckled bowl about him.
At its upper end, a Switchback now humped itself like a multiple dromedary, and clear across it, from a staging on one side to a staging on the other, was swung the cabled apparatus known as an Aerial Flight.
XL I remember that when I was a child I was taken to a fair and given a ride on a switchback railway.
The switchbackplunges downward in its mad race to the abyss--the end is near.
The car on the switchback rushes, whirls, plunges--falls with me to destruction.
I felt as if once again I were strapped in the car on the switchback railway.
Then for about two miles it dropped more gradually, becoming from that point onward a sort of switchback with a generally downward trend until it reached the level not far from Durand's house.
Even before Tim gained the switchback portion of the track he had hopelessly distanced them.
Then at length he rode along the frowning front of a great hill, and looking up his eyes traced sections of an abandoned switchback which he and Alice had pushed up that day, to find it lost in the slide on the edge of the windfall.
Below them dipped a cross-cut of trail, and overhead another section of theswitchback hung like a tilting shelf under a knobby shoulder that concealed the true dome.
Up the switchback to a green plateau we went, meeting our first ice there, and here again that miracle of the mountains, meadow flowers and snow side by side.
It was four o'clock when we began the ascent of the switchback at the top of the valley.
Three thousand feet that switchback went straight up in the air.
But he was a strong horse, and on a trail up a switchback--do you know what a switchback is?
Sometimes our destination towered directly overhead, up a switchback of a trail where it was necessary to divide the party into groups, so that no stone dislodged by a horse need fall on some one below.
No motor can climb up and down the steep switchback to the Arroyo Hondo of the Bridge.
He went on fluttering or flapping till he was about halfway up and for the rest of the upstroke of the switchback he soared up with the impetus he had gained.
Just before the bottom of each switchback he gave very quick wing flaps, almost fluttering, one would call it, this made him start up again.
She spent a shilling of her money on the switchback railway, pronouncing the swift, bewildering motion "heavenly.
Sometimes our road, dividing endless cornfields, stretched before us long and straight for miles ahead, over switchback after switchback, as if the hills chased each other but never succeeded in catching up.
There was a pretty, though not extravagantly pretty, switchback road of fair surface stretching before us, roughly parallel with the sea, giving glimpses here and there of landlocked harbours with colliers and trampships at anchor.
More of a switchback it seemed to the run of the folk.
Monson flung up the vans against the air, and over Fulham they rushed up their atmospheric switchback again, steeply--too steeply.
Jenny thought what horrible places they were, these sweeping moorland wastes with gray cottages no bigger than sheep, with switchback stone walls whence the crows flew as the train surged by.
She did not enjoy Yarmouth with its swarming sands and goat-carriages and dust and fleas and switchback flung down on the barren coast like a monstrous skeleton.
Then Joe learned what a Rocky Mountain switchback is.
Joe Gets Acquainted with Porcupines, the Diamond Hitch, andSwitchback Trails 73 VIII.
Illustration: Switchback Trail up Swift Current Pass] Mills laughed again, but said no more.
On the head wall, they found only a few inches, and they were able to slide from one switchback to the next lower, thus cutting off the turns and descending with great rapidity.
A switchback trail can be put up almost any slope that is not actually perpendicular, and the slope they were climbing now was not quite that, though to Joe it seemed pretty near it.
This switchback is a montagne Russe coming up and down a hill, and six miles in length.
While on one of these I visited the celebrated Mauch Chunk coal mines, and rode on the switchback railway, where I had a fearfully narrow escape from death.
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