California's Lost Vertical Railway

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Chapters:
00:00 - Why Transportation Logistics in California are so difficult
00:54 - The Story of Thaddeus S. C. Lowe
02:42 - The 19th Century Science of Ballooning
04:35 - The invention of the Ice Machine
06:29 - Why the Mount Lowe Railway was built
08:43 - Construction of the Mount Lowe Railway
11:28 - What visitors experienced on the Mount Lowe Railway
13:22 - The Down Fall of Mount Lowe Railway
15:16 - What Remains of the Mount Lowe Railway

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