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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 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 ...
Mount Washington Cog Railway. Mount Washington, New Hampshire. ... Live commentary enhances the experience of the fall foliage train ride. The round-trip takes about 4 ½, including a 90-minute ...
Bretton Woods is an area within the town of Carroll, New Hampshire, United States, whose principal points of interest are three leisure and recreation facilities.Being virtually surrounded by the White Mountain National Forest, the vista from Bretton Woods toward Mount Washington and the Presidential Range includes no significant artificial structures other than the Mount Washington Cog ...
Ryan Presby, who manages the Mount Washington Cog Railway, said he took the train up three times with rescue crews. As winds hit 90 miles per hour (145 kph) and temperatures plunged, he worried the train's diesel fuel would gel and the engine seize. He told rescuers to jump out as quickly as possible when they reached their destination.
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)
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.
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 ...