This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F69E offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character βmountain railwayβ for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: car, mountain, railway.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Glyph for U+FE0EVariation Selector-15: ποΈ See the Emojipedia for more details on this characterβs emoji properties.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
A mountain railway is a railway that operates in a mountainous region. It may operate through the mountains by following mountain valleys and tunneling beneath mountain passes, or it may climb a mountain to provide transport to and from the summit.
Mountain railways often use narrow gauge tracks to allow for tight curves in the track and reduce tunnel size and structure gauge, and hence construction cost and effort. Where mountain railways need to climb steep gradients, they may use steep grade railway technology, or even operate as funicular railways.