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Re: Gaunlet track



There is a very nice video "Lisbon and its Trams" showing some of the
gauntlet track there, as well as the fascinating grades and extremely narrow
streets that force the use of this style of track.

Darren Hodges



Robert Lee <robsl@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> There is plenty of gauntlet track in Lisbon as well, but I would agree
that
> Amsterdam is the gauntlet track capital of the world!  But what Lisbon
lacks
> in quantity it makes up in quality and variety of alignments and grades
> which accompany the gauntlet track sections.  That's a verbose way of
saying
> that Amsterdam is flat and Lisbon positivley mountainous.
>
>