Tram-climber and stair-creep. It's all Hong Kong

Hong Kong (Hong Kong)

slope such that at times breathtaking and reminded of a roller coaster. Not the Cordilleras, of course, a ride that is not for those with a weak heart and nervous imagination. Slope - from barely noticeable to four degrees and thirty almost. And climbed up the tram route to Victoria Peak has 115 years ago.
Generally, the Hong Kong Island and its main and the most picturesque bay (also Victoria) with yachts, ocean liners and all manner of craft, its coast, surging sparkling polished glass skyscrapers, the need to look from a height. This - a breathtaking spectacle. Not that when you wander down, and lifts his head up - and where is heaven?
Although at the end of the XIX century skyscrapers here yet, did not exist, and the sun, they are not frozen, knowing the price of recreation and entertainment British invented the tramline the "commanding heights" of the colony from which the very hot weather under a nice cool breeze rake neighborhood.
Since starting in 1888 and almost 40 years, streetcars, puffing, climbed the 396 mark meters above sea level on the steam engines. Tu-tu-oo-oo! In 1926, to replace the tram-cars, electric locomotives arrived, who got on board is no longer 30, and 50 ladies with parasols and gentlemen with stacks and pith helmets. To me, anyway, those days passengers seem that way. Model of perfected - for exterior and interior - toward a larger number of seats, and the appearance of ladies and gentlemen gradually changed, and not only in terms of clothes, but also ethnicity. But, interestingly enough, the tram route rudeness of exactly 1365 meters for all the transformation has not occurred.
Current model went into service 15 years ago. Two tram cars coupled with effective brakes take on board 120 passengers and climb up, pulling on heavy-duty steel wire rope 44 millimeters thick. Back tramway rolling, holding the rope, backwards, so that everyone sits back to inexorably approaching the city. Not very convenient, but no one protests, you can turn my head, sit sideways - legs into the aisle. During those seven or eight minutes that go on the road, no time to get bored.
Ropes, which have a tram in contrast to the cable cars are not at the top and bottom - between the wheels, on the strength of almost fivefold overlap the load capacity and kept on break point to 139 tons. Sam "climber", if it does not fill sumo wrestlers or the Marines with full combat computation, "pulls" of 30 tons. Clearly, in modern times, electric hoist controls the computer.
As for the rise at an angle under 30 degrees you like it or not, presses against the back of a wooden seat, there is an involuntary emotion, and even some awesome, especially once the right forwards begins to open Hong Kong in all its splendor banking: highest skyscrapers are almost certainly the building of any international financial centers and companies. Well, and if not a bank, because the hotel. You look right through the window and think: how is it that people are built near?!
Sunny Day gives a wonderful perspective. But the trams-climbers starting their careers feat at 7 am, scurrying along the slope of Victoria Peak every 15-20 minutes until midnight. At night, Hong Kong - it lights the sea and the shimmering sea of