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Ryder P. Moses

Skagit Incline Railway

At Newhalen WA the Skagit Incline Railway is a rare sight. Built in the early \'20s, it is 600 feet long climbing 338 feet at a gradient of 34.2
degrees. Used in the building of The Gorge and Diablo Dams. Nearly a 1000 carloads of materials
were lifted up the incline to a rail line that
went eastward to the dam building area.
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Why did they need so many rails? Is it all abondened now?
 
So that Bridge thingy at the top(Green) would have a section of rail on it and would go up and down those 3 tracks carrying some cars on that lift thingy to the top when needed?
 

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