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Monday Train Blogging: Slippery Slope | 20 comments (20 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Fully in the olympic spirit, I beat you with the funicular... of the olympic city:

Turin "dentiera"

... 3.100 metri (between)... Sassi (225 metri s.l.m.) ...and .. Superga (650 metri s.l.m.).
average: 13,5%,
Max: 21%.. at the end between ..Pian Gambino e la Stazione di Superga

La répartie est dans l'escalier. Elle revient de suite.

by lacordaire on Tue Jan 31st, 2006 at 03:47:43 AM EST

Re: Citius, altius,... (none / 1)

It gets you just under the rainbow:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78158384@N00/83137621/

The sight from the top is amazing: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yawgmoth/86106127/

The station:
http://www.comune.torino.it/torinoplus/english/turingrandtour/fotogallery/2738.html

La répartie est dans l'escalier. Elle revient de suite.

by lacordaire on Tue Jan 31st, 2006 at 03:57:28 AM EST
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Re: Citius, altius,... (none / 0)

By the way, could you help me retrieving a map of the Olympic installations? (I'm curious where the ski jumping ) I went to the official page, (www.noi2006.it), but it is apparently Italian-only, and my little railway-Italian is not enough to find the map...

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Jan 31st, 2006 at 06:04:24 AM EST
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Re: Citius, altius,... (none / 0)

Scrap that... NOI is apparently some side event, I found the real official (and multilingual) page.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Tue Jan 31st, 2006 at 06:07:13 AM EST
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Re: Citius, altius,... (4.00 / 2)

Ok, I don't beat you, it's a rack tramway.
Mais l'important, c'est de participer.

La répartie est dans l'escalier. Elle revient de suite.

by lacordaire on Tue Jan 31st, 2006 at 04:00:40 AM EST
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