The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then performs a 180 degree turn at its summit before swooping back down on a parallel track.
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Robert W. Paul
Irish Mail – L.& N.W. Railway – Taking up Water at Full Speed
Pope Leo XIII Leaving Carriage and Being Ushered Into Garden, No. 104
Pope Leo XIII Carried through the Vatican Loggia on His Way to the Sistine Chapel