Mountain railway: ahead of its time: Switzerland's prime 2008 candidate for UNESCO World Heritage listing, the renowned Albula and gernina lines of the Rhaetian Railways, opened in the early 20th century and were greeted as spectacular engineering feats. Swiss News takes a closer look.

Swiss News › Nbr. 2007, April 2007

Author: Shepard, Lyn

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Mountain railway: ahead of its time: Switzerland's prime 2008 candidate for UNESCO World Heritage listing, the renowned Albula and gernina lines of the Rhaetian Railways, opened in the early 20th century and were greeted as spectacular engineering feats. Swiss News takes a closer look.

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High in Canton Graubunden's Albula valley, Swiss surveyor Joos Guidon demonstrates an instrument used to measure angles in today's most sophisticated engineering projects. The telescope of the theodolite, as the device is known, sits on a tripod. Each reporter on our press tour takes a turn squinting through its highly sensitive lens to view a distant building in the vi...

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