Switchback

On the Devil's Nose Train Ride.

Nariz del Diablo, or Devil's Nose train, was named after the near vertical mountain of the same name which blocked the route. Engineers designed a series of switchbacks which allowed the train to climb nearly 2700 feet at a gradient of 1-in-18 by going forwards then backwards up a second set of tracks. tracks.

The train ascends from the lower level on the the right, stops, then proceeds upwards on the tracks on the left.

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