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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 ...
Mount Washington Cog Railway in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. This historic railway is the first of its kind and takes passengers all the way up Mount Washington, the highest peak in the northeast ...
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 ...
Mooning of the Mount Washington Cog Railway is most commonly done by thru-hikers, as they pass by on the Appalachian Trail. [1] [2] It is a tradition, believe 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. There are several theories as to the reasons for this ...
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 ...
The cog railway was formally opened on August 14, 1868, as far as “Jacob's ladder,” and entirely completed in July 1869. [5] [6] During the construction of this road, it was visited by a Swiss engineer, who took away drawings of the machinery and track, from which a similar railway, Rigi Railways, was built up Mount Rigi in Switzerland.
The Mount Washington Advisory Committee looks at the possibility of a Cog Railway hotel on Mt. Washington.
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 ...