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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 .
This is a route-map template for Pikes Peak Cog Railway, a United States railway. For information on using this template, refer to Template:Routemap . For pictograms used, see Commons:BSicon/Catalogue .
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The cog railway depot 6,570 feet (2,000 m) was situated on Ruxton Avenue in Manitou Springs (center foreground), and Ruxton Park is directly above the town along Ruxton Creek at 9,078 feet (2,767 m). In 1925, a water utility power plant was built for $16,866 equivalent to $293,027 in 2023 [ 16 ] and opened in Ruxton Park by the city of Colorado ...
Attractions and businesses in Iron Springs included an electric trolley, mineral springs, the Manitou Incline, and the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, a cog railway. The incline was dismantled and is now a hiking trail. Neither the electric trolley or the Colorado Midland Railway are in Iron Springs now. The cog railway continues to operate.
The Incline operated under the Pikes Peak Cog Railway until a rock slide in 1990 washed out the rail bed and the Cog Railway decided to not repair the tracks. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Manitou Springs City Council, under emergency declaration, voted to close the Incline on March 17, 2020. The closure was a result of health concerns over ...
Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway: Pikes Peak Summit: 4,301 m (14,111 ft) [4] 1891 Argentina: Salta–Antofagasta: Viaducto La Polvorilla 4,220 m (13,845 ft) 1948 Ecuador: Quito-Guayaquil: Urbina 3,609 m (11,841 ft) 1908 China: Lanzhou–Xinjiang High-Speed Railway: Qilianshan No.2 Tunnel 3,608 m (11,837 ft) 2014 Switzerland: Jungfrau Railway
Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, Manitou Springs, Colorado. Swiss-made Diesel-Pneumatic railcars, 1- or 2-car trains. Strub rack system, originally Abt. 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 ...