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The Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway (also known as the Pikes Peak Cog Railway) is a cog railway that climbs one of the most iconic mountains in the United States, Pikes Peak in Colorado. The base station is in Manitou Springs , near Colorado Springs .
Tramway line built and two cars purchased, but public service was not started. [37]: 58 Fort Collins Municipal Railway: Fort Collins: Electric December 29, 1907. December 29, 1984 June 30, 1951 Heritage streetcar service opened December 29, 1984, [39] using the same name as the former system. Grand Junction Street Railway [38]: 238–240
As of the 2017 season, the railroad operates three coal-fired narrow-gauge steam locomotives. Engine #1 is an 0-4-4-0 T Orenstein & Koppel Mallet locomotive built in 1902. . Engine #2 is a 0-4-0T+T Henschel built in 1
The BNSF, which merged the AT&SF and the Burlington Northern in 1996, designates the route as their Pikes Peak Subdivision. [2] Common traffic over the line largely consists of unit coal trains originating from the Powder River Basin in southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming , however manifest trains are very common as well, and intermodal ...
Mountain Metropolitan Transit provides a variety of transportation services for the Pikes Peak region. They operate twenty-nine fixed-route bus lines, three free shuttles, and two deviated fixed-route bus lines. Riders on deviated routes can request service adjustments up to three-quarters of a mile from the regular bus route.
The hot hatch will compete along with race-prepped versions of the regular Integra, the TLX Type S, and a custom NSX nicknamed "Yamabiko."
The railway is approximately 3 miles (5 km) long and ascends Mount Washington's western slope, beginning at an elevation of approximately 2,700 feet (820 m) above sea level and ending just short of the mountain's summit peak of 6,288 feet (1,917 m).
In 2011, Greg Cummings (a local resident with Type-I Diabetes) became the first person to hike the Incline more than 500 times in one year. Cummings hiked the Incline 601 times and ascended Pikes Peak 34 times, setting the World Record for elevation climbed in one year at just under 1.4 million vertical feet (430,000 metres). [26]