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Switchback Railway

Switchback Railway (formerly known as "Montagnes Russes"), a line of rails along which a car or train can move by the action of gravity or momentum over downward and upward gradients in alternation. This contrivance on a small scale forms an amusement at many pleasure resorts. The word "switchback" means in engineering phraseology, "backwards and forwards."