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SWITCHBACK , a form of pleasure railway, built over alternate descents and ascents, the train or car first gathering momentum by running down an incline, and surmounting by means of this a lesser ascent. Switchbacks were originally merely an imitation, using cars upon wheels, of the sledge-coasting
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French montagnes russes. They were introduced in Paris in 1816, but soon disappeared in con-sequence of several serious accidents. About 188o they again became popular both in Europe and America. A variation of the switchback, though lacking its essential principle of climbing by means of momentum, is the water-chute, an imitation of the Canadian toboggan-slide, in which cars built in the shape of boats glide down steep inclines into artificial lakes at their bases. This is popularly called " shooting
round a track in the form of a perpendicular loop, in the course of which journey the occupants or rider, while crossing
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