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The rack railway is a mountaineering railway.Generally, the slopes that can be climbed by railways have a gradient of about 4“ to 6”, and short sections of 9% can occasionally be crossed.A rack railway has a special rack rail placed on a sleeper in the middle of an ordinary rail.A locomotive traveling on a rack railway is equipped with one or more gears that mesh with the rack rail and travel.