Switzerland
- Roman Abt, Abt rack railway system, points for funicular railways
- Jakob Buchli development of single-axle drive, Buchli drive
- Emil Huber-Stockar, pioneer of the electric traction with high-tension, low frequency AC
- Eduard Locher, rack with horizontal engagement
- Anatole Mallet, Mallet locomotive
- Niklaus Riggenbach, first mountain railway in Europe with rack system, steam locomotive braking system
- Emil Strub, Strub rack railway system
- René Thury, engineer, "King of DC", experimental rack railway in 1884 at Montreux, responsible for many inventions especially involving series coupling of electric motors
Read more about this topic: List Of Railway Pioneers, Technical Development of The Railways
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—Orson Welles (1915–84)