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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 ...
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While nearly the whole mountain is in the White Mountain National Forest, an area of 60.3 acres (24.4 ha) surrounding and including the summit is designated as Mount Washington State Park. The Mount Washington Cog Railway ascends the western slope of the mountain, and the Mount Washington Auto Road climbs to the
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 ...
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 ...
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 land forming the park was originally given to Dartmouth College in 1951 by the estate of the owner of the Cog Railway. Dartmouth sold 59 acres (240,000 m 2 ) to the State of New Hampshire in 1964 for use as a park and then sold the final 8 acres (32,000 m 2 ) in 2008 for $2.1M, after a long-term broadcasting lease had expired.