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Archival footage of a rail motor car from Kalka to Shimla runs on the tracks of the toy train in Himachal Pradesh. It looks like a bus running on the railway track. It is a single coach train. The rail motor car passes through tunnel number 76. A passenger toy train passes through a tunnel. Soon after the introduction of railways in India, Shimla came into limelight because of a proposal to construct a rail line. It is also interesting to note that intensive surveys were carried out before the actual work began. The first of these survey was carried out in the year 1884 followed by another one the very next year. On the basis of results obatined from these two survey, a project report was prepared and presented before the government of India in the year 1887. After plenty of brainstorming,
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