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Pikes Peak Cog Railway locomotive and car, circa 1900. Construction was started in 1889, being built by Italian laborers using only pickaxes and assisted by donkeys. The line was built as a standard-gauge railway with an Abt rack system and wooden ties. Limited service was started in 1890 on the first segment of the line from Manitou Springs to ...
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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
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
On April 13, 1897, Lucian D. Ross, Thomas Burk, James L. Lindsay, W.T. Doubt and Kurnel R. Babbitt organized the Cripple Creek District Railway Company to operate a 6.25-mile (10.06 km) 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge railway with an overhead line between Cripple Creek and Victor, Colorado. The "Pikes Peak gold rush" of 1859 ...
The BNSF, which merged the AT&SF and the Burlington Northern in 1996, designates the route as their Pikes Peak Subdivision. [2] Common traffic over the line largely consists of unit coal trains originating from the Powder River Basin in southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming , however manifest trains are very common as well, and intermodal ...
The Mount Lowe Railway was a fulfillment of 19th century Pasadenans' desire to have a scenic mountain railroad to the crest of the San Gabriel Mountains. The Railway opened on July 4, 1893, and consisted of nearly seven miles (11 km) of track starting in Altadena, California, at a station called Mountain Junction. Atop Echo Mountain was a 70 ...
The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC), also known as The Race to the Clouds, is an annual automobile hillclimb to the summit of Pikes Peak in the U.S. state of Colorado. The track measures 12.42 miles (19.99 km) and has over 156 turns, climbing 4,720 ft (1,440 m) from the start at mile 7 on Pikes Peak Highway, to the finish at 14,115 ...