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Mount Washington Cog Railway photos; Mount Washington Railway Company – Historical Timeline Archived December 10, 2013, at the Wayback Machine "Among the Clouds" by John H. Ackerman, American Heritage Magazine, April 1968, Volume 19, Issue 3 Archived May 22, 2009, at the Wayback Machine; ASME/ASCE 1962 designation of Mount Washington Cog ...
The world’s first mountain-climbing cog railway, New Hampshire's historic Mount Washington Cog Railway uses steam and bio-diesel-powered locomotives to carry passengers to the summit of the ...
The Mount Washington Auto Road—originally the Mount Washington Carriage Road—is a 7.6-mile (12.2 km) private toll road on the east side of the mountain, rising 4,618 feet (1,408 m) from an altitude of 1,527 feet (465 m) at the bottom to 6,145 feet (1,873 m) at the top, an average gradient of 11.6%. The road was completed and opened to the ...
Mooning of the Mount Washington Cog Railway trains is most commonly done by thru-hikers, as they pass by on the Appalachian Trail. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a tradition, believed to date to at least 1987, in which, as the train passes the trail, some hikers choose to drop their drawers and "moon" the passengers.
The first successful rack railway in the United States was the Mount Washington Cog Railway, developed by Sylvester Marsh. [4] Marsh was issued a U.S. patent for the general idea of a rack railway in September 1861, [ 5 ] and in January 1867 for a practical rack where the rack teeth take the form of rollers arranged like the rungs of a ladder ...
Mount Washington Cog Railway, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Bio Diesel & live steam cog train operations with Marsh rack system, world's first to be used as a mountain railway (inaugurated in 1868). Quincy and Torch Lake Cog Railway, [9] cog rail tram opened in 1997. Hancock, Michigan. Green Mountain Cog Railway (abandoned)
Mount Washington Cog Railway; Q. Quincy and Torch Lake Cog Railway This page was last edited on 18 April 2020, at 04:33 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Cog railways are common in Switzerland and found in other parts of the world (totaling about 50 lines), but this is one of only three such lines remaining in the United States, the others being the older Mount Washington Cog Railway in New Hampshire, and the short Quincy and Torch Lake Cog Railway.