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October 20th, 2011, 21:21 GMT · By

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Google Mounts the Street View Trike on a Railway Cart in the Swiss Alps

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Google has sent Street View to some pretty strange places. It went indoors, it went to Stonehenge, to Antarctica, to the Amazon and, well, to plenty of streets around the world.

What's more, Google has built several contraptions to capture imagery, the Street View cars, of course, but also the trike, a snowmobile, even a trolley for indoor shots.

The Street View trike has proven the most versatile and Google has already nailed it to a boat and sent it on the Amazon. But it never went on rails until very recently, when Google teamed up with the Rhaetian Railway in Switzerland and did just that.

Google is done capturing the images around the picturesque Albula-Bernina line, but they haven't been published yet as they are still being processed.

In the meantime, you can check out the video above and in Google's Picasa gallery.

GOOGLE'S STREET VIEW TRIKE IN THE SWISS ALPS - PHOTO GALLERY:

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