Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190217:05:38:00
Drag, blast, and tunnel one's way up this route back in the day. back in the beginning, making the trip to shimla required a somewhat uncomfortable three-day trek up the mountain by foot, or horse, or hand-powered palanquin. the stats are impressive. a climb of around 5,000 feet, over a hundred tunnels, more than 800 bridges, an engineering feat, a job that when you consider the time, defies imagining. in the building of this railroad, many died. many, many died. ♪