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  2. Mount Washington Cog Railway - Wikipedia

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    The Mount Washington Cog Railway, also known as the Cog, is the world's first mountain-climbing cog railway (rack-and-pinion railway). The railway climbs Mount Washington in New Hampshire, United States. It uses a Marsh rack system and both steam and biodiesel-powered locomotives to carry tourists to the top of the mountain.

  3. Rack railway - Wikipedia

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    The Pilatus Railway is the steepest rack railway in the world, with a maximum gradient of 48% and an average gradient of 35%. Functioning of the rack and pinion on the Strub system. A rack railway (also rack-and-pinion railway, cog railway, or cogwheel railway) is a steep grade railway with a toothed rack rail, usually between the running rails.

  4. Pikes Peak Cog Railway - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. List of rack railways - Wikipedia

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    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)

  6. Lookout Mountain Incline Railway - Wikipedia

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    The railway is approximately one mile (1.6 km) in length (single-track except for a short two-track passing loop at the midway point, allowing operation of two cars at one time). It has a maximum grade of 72.7%, making it one of the world's steepest passenger railways. [4] It obtained Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark status in 1991.

  7. Green Mountain Cog Railway - Wikipedia

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    The Green Mountain Cog Railway was a mountain railway built to carry tourists to the top of Green Mountain (now known as Cadillac Mountain) on Mount Desert Island in Maine. Its track was built to 4 ft 8 in ( 1,422 mm ) gauge, which is technically a narrow gauge , as it is a 1 ⁄ 2 -inch less than 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm ) standard gauge .

  8. Schafberg Railway - Wikipedia

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    The Schafberg Railway is a cog railway, using the Abt system with a rail gauge of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in). [2] A total of three locomotives were originally ordered to work the railway, the last of which being delivered during 1894.

  9. Tanvald–Harrachov cog railway - Wikipedia

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    Rail transport map of Zackenbahn. The railway was built in 1902 with the intention to connect the lines Liberec–Jablonec–Tanvald and Jelenia Góra-Kořenov , that is to connect the Austro-Hungarian Empire with Prussia. After the Second World War Silesia was acquired by Poland and the cross-border