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  1. Railway used in mountainous regions, which
  2. uses a toothed pinion running in a toothed
  3. rack to provide traction. The rack usually
  4. runs between the rails. Ordinary wheels lose
  5. their grip even on quite shallow gradients,
  6. but rack railways, like that on Mount Pilatus
  7. in Switzerland, can climb slopes as steep as
  8. 1 in 2.1.
  9.