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The indoor railway built for Norway's winter

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The Bergensbanen railway operates in a climate so consistently hostile it makes Hoth look like a tropical resort. To stop passenger trains from being casually yeeted off mountainsides by avalanches, engineers enclosed miles of track in massive wooden sheds, essentially building a sprawling indoor railway just to outsmart the Norwegian winter.

The indoor railway built for Norway's winter
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