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A Cog locomotive ready to push a passenger car up the Mount Washington Cog Railway on a foggy day in October 2012 Access to the base station by car is by three routes, each culminating with the upper portion of the dead-end Cog Base Road.
This is a route-map template for the Mount Washington Cog Railway, a United States heritage railroad.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
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 ...
Lakes of the Clouds may be reached by hiking from Marshfield Station, on the Mount Washington Cog Railway, via the Ammonoosuc Ravine Trail (in approximately four hours). The area is also traversed by the Crawford Path (part of the Appalachian Trail ) and the Dry River Trail.
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 ...
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 ...
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)
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 ...