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up here 1300 meters above sea level is not a view for the faint hearted and transporting people up.
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This steep Swiss mountain side is not without its challenges to construct a tunnel with 110% radiant has really been done before.
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If the breathtaking climb itself doesn't leave, you wake up the nays.
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Each of the carriages can carry 34 people at a speed of 10 meters per second, meaning the climb or descent last no longer than four minutes.
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Up here, 1300 meters above sea level is not a view for the faint hearted and transporting people up.
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This steep Swiss mountain side is not without its challenges.
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Two years behind schedule, it's taken 14 years of building on with a price tag of $53 million.
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But the Swiss are convinced their new funicular on the world's steepest line is worth it.
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The style I turned that same cents to construct a turner with 100 and 10% radiant has rarely been done before.
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All the workers have to secure themselves.
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Sometimes they have to work hanging in the ropes.
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We have to be very careful with the material If you drop something, it falls all the way down on what's even more dangerous.
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If you dropped something, it can fall on the head of a worker further below.
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If the breathtaking climb itself doesn't leave, you wake up.
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The nays been standing upright in the carriages shouldn't be a problem, either.
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They've been uniquely designed to allow the floors to adjust with the Grady Int as it travels.
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Each of the carriages can carry 34 people at a speed of 10 meters per second, meaning the climb or descent last no longer than four minutes.
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The line replaces an old funicular that had been operating between the valley town of Schwitz to the mountain village of Stews.
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Since 1933 the new space age looking carriages have been held an engineering success.