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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 .
Manitou station / m æ n ɪ t oʊ / is a limited-service stop on the Metro-North Railroad's Hudson Line. It serves the hamlet of Manitou in the southwestern corner of Philipstown in Putnam County, New York. The station is open part-time, serving one weekday peak hour train in each direction and six weekend trains each direction.
Manitou and Pikes Peak Railway; Pikes Peak Historical Street Railway Foundation; Rio Grande Scenic Railroad (Currently in receivership) Royal Gorge Route Railroad; Ski Train (now operated by Amtrak as the Winter Park Express) Tiny Town Railroad
The line was subsequently operated by the Rochester, Charlotte & Manitou Beach Railroad (1895-1908) and the Rochester & Manitou Railroad (1908-1925). [ 3 ] [ 6 ] The last car ran on the line in 1925. [ 7 ]
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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 ...
In 1880, a trail was opened in Englemann Canyon to Pikes Peak. [5] It was called the Manitou Trail in 1883. [6] Zalmon Simmons surveyed the canyon for telegraph lines. The Civil War veteran and later inventor of the Simmons mattress decided that the canyon was suited for construction of a cog railway. [7]