List of rack railways

Angola

• Lengue gorge.
• on Benguela railway – 1906

  Argentina

• Transandine Railway between Mendoza and Santa Rosa de Los Andes, Chile, see Chile below.

  Australia

• West Coast Wilderness Railway in Tasmania, originally opened in 1896 to service the Mount Lyell copper mine and closed and completely removed in 1960s. Rebuilt and re-opened for tourists in 2003. Uses the Abt rack system. gauge.
• Mt Morgan Rack Railway on Mount Morgan – rack system existed until 1952 when the line was deviated. Uses the Abt rack system. gauge.
• Ellalong Colliery – underground Lamella rack – installed in 1984
• Skitube Alpine Railway – Lamella rack – in the Snowy Mountains, opened in 1987; gauge.
• Blue Mountains sewerage project – temporary gauge construction railway, 1995

  Austria

• Achensee Railway, Tyrol
• Erzberg Railway, Styria
• Gaisberg Railway, Gaisberg
• Kahlenberg Railway, Kahlenberg, Döbling, Vienna
• Schafberg Railway, Upper Austria
• Schneeberg Railway, Lower Austria

  Bolivia

• Rio Mulatos-Potosí line

  Brazil

• Corcovado Rack Railway
• The Estrada de Ferro Santos-Jundiaí which became part of Rede Ferroviária Federal Sociedade Anônima 1957–1997, now owned by MRS Logística. gauge between Paranapiacaba and Raiz de Serra.
• Teresopolis and Petropolis railways, both out of service, near Rio de Janeiro.

  Chile

• Arica–La Paz railway, Arica–La Paz
• Santa Lucía Hill tramway, Santiago
• The Transandine Railway, Santa Rosa de Los Andes – Mendoza, Argentina The rebuild will be adhesion only and use a base tunnel.

  Czech Republic

• Cog railway Tanvald-Harrachov

  France

• Lyon Metro Line C
• Mont Blanc Tramway
• Montenvers Railway
• Petit train de la Rhune
• Panoramique des Domes

  Germany

• Drachenfels Railway
• Harz Railway
• * Rübeland Railway
• Höllentalbahn
• Murg Valley Railway
• Stuttgart Rack Railway, Stuttgart
• Wendelstein Railway
• Bavarian Zugspitze Railway

  Greece

• Diakofto Kalavrita Railway

  Hungary

• Fogaskerekű Vasút in Budapest, Hungary is a kind of cog-wheel tram in the hilly Buda part of the city.

  Indonesia

• The former State Railways of West Sumatra's line between Kayutanam and Batutabal, and Padang Panjang to Payakumbuh.
• The former Netherlands East Indies Railways' line between Ambarawa and Gemawang, on the Kedungjati-Ambarawa-Magelang-Yogyakarta line. Only the Ambarawa-Bedono section is in operation as a tourist line.

  India

• Nilgiri Mountain Railway, in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu is also a World Heritage Site. It runs using steam powered 'X' Class locomotives built by the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works.

  Italy

• Mont Cenis Pass Railway; temporary while main tunnel built.
• Vesuvius Funicular
• Opicina Tramway
• Rittnerbahn
• Superga Rack Railway
• Principe–Granarolo rack railway in the city of Genoa
• S.Ellero – Saltino
• Lagonegro-Castrovillari-Spezzano Albanese of Ferrovie Calabro Lucane
• Vibo Valentia-Mileto of Ferrovie Calabro Lucane
• Rocchette-Asiago
• Catanzaro Città – Catanzaro Sala of Ferrovie della Calabria
• Paola-Cosenza of Ferrovie dello Stato
• Saline-Volterra of Ferrovie dello Stato
• Dittaino-Leonforte of Ferrovie dello Stato
• Dittaino-Piazza Armerina of Ferrovie dello Stato
• Lercara Bassa-Filaga-Palazzo Adriano-Magazzolo of Ferrovie dello Stato
• Agrigento-Naro-Licata

  Japan

• Ikawa Line, Oigawa Railway
• Usui Pass was the first rack and pinion line in Japan, on the Shin-Etsu Line of the then Japanese National Railway. It was replaced in 1963 by a new parallel adhesion line, and in turn replaced by the Nagano Shinkansen line opened for the 1998 Winter Olympics at Nagano.

  Lebanon

• A rack railway used to exist on the climb from Beirut to Syria, gauge.

  Mexico

• The gauge Mapimi Railroad in Durango State had a short Abt rack section from El Cambio to Ojuela. The maximum grade was 13.6% and it was worked by two Baldwin 0-6-2T steam locomotives built in 1896 and two Baldwin 2-6-2T steam locomotives built in 1898 and 1900. The railroad closed in the early 1930s.

  Panama

• Large ships are guided through the Panama Canal Locks by electric locomotives known as mulas, running on rack rails on the lock walls. The new locks, projected to open in 2015, will use tugs.

  Portugal

• Monte Railway – there was previously a cog railway from Funchal to Monte in Madeira Island, which operated between 1893 and 1943, and went further up to Terreiro da Luta at 867 m above sea level.

  Romania

• Bouțari - Sarmizegetusa segment of Caransebeș - Subcetate railway, measuring 18.78 km, between 1909 and 1978.

  Slovakia

• Štrbské Pleso – Štrba rack railway
• Brezno – Tisovec rack railway

  South Africa

• There used to be a Riggenbach rack railway built by the NZASM between Waterval Boven and Waterval Onder. It was in operation until 1908. gauge.

  Spain

• Montserrat Rack Railway
• Vall de Núria Rack Railway

  Switzerland

• Appenzeller Bahnen
• Bergbahn Rheineck-Walzenhausen
• Berner Oberland Bahn, also owning Schynige Platte Railway
• Chemin de fer Aigle-Leysin
• Chemin de fer Aigle-Ollon-Monthey-Champéry
• Chemin de fer Bex-Villars-Bretaye
• Chemin de fer Blonay – Les Pléiades
• Brienz Rothorn Bahn
• Chemin de Fer de Martigny au Châtelard
• Chemin de fer Montreux-Glion-Rochers-de-Naye
• Dampfbahn Furka-Bergstrecke
• Dolderbahn
• Gornergratbahn
• Joweid Zahnradbahn
• Jungfraubahn – the highest rack railway in Europe
• Matterhorn-Gotthard Railway
• Monte Generoso Railway
• Pilatus Railway
• Rigi Bahnen
• Rorschach-Heiden-Bahn, Rorschach to Heiden
• Wengernalpbahn – the longest continuous rack railway in the world
• Zentralbahn

  United Kingdom

• Snowdon Mountain Railway

  United States

• The Chicago Tunnel Company used the Morgan rack system on the steep grade up to Grant Park.
• Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, Manitou Springs, Colorado. Swiss-made Diesel-Pneumatic railcars, 1- or 2-car trains. Abt rack system.
• Mount Washington Cog Railway, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Bio Diesel & live steam cog train operations with Marsh rack system, world's first to be used as a mountain railway.
• Quincy and Torch Lake Cog Railway, cog rail tram opened in 1997. Hancock, Michigan.
• Green Mountain Cog Railway

  Venezuela

• The Puerto Cabello and Valencia railway was constructed in the 1880s. It used a rack and pinion system on a steep section at Trincheras.

  Vietnam

• The Đà Lạt-Tháp Chàm Railway in Southern Vietnam. Abandoned after the Vietnam War, although a 7 km section remains in use as a tourist attraction. Built in the 1920s, the 84 km line had a cogwheel part 34 km long, running through four tunnels with a total length of almost 1,000 meters, taking trains from the Krongpha Pass up the Ngoan Muc Pass to Da Lat.