When tractors were first developed, they used enormous steam engines that were notoriously unreliable and hard to maintain. These were phased out around the turn with the twentieth century and substituted for internal combustion engines which were smaller though powerful and ran on a number of fuels including kerosene, ethanol and gasoline. By the 1960s several of these engines were phased out and only more effective internal combustion engines that ran on diesel and after this, biodiesel. We've all heard the stories about failures regarding the 3 million foreclosures, plummeting house values, withering rents and many properties for sale with few buyers willing, or able, to speculate. So, how possibly will there be lack? Well, apparently there just aren't enough new houses being built. Why, you have to ask, can we should build houses, if no-one's buying them? And if you will find swathes of empty properties the gap and breadth of the nation, surely unfortunately we cannot must help to increase that bleak inventory? To reach Ooty effortlessly, the mountain railway was founded. It was inaugurated in 1908. The working of the wheels on this narrow gauge is founded on the rack and pinion arrangement to aid it climb up the vertical mountain slopes. It travels through many tunnels offering several fantastic sights of the valley beneath. It heads through the dense forests you could see some wild animals such as elephants, monkeys, deer and wild boar on the way if you're fortunate.