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This is a route-map template for the Mount Washington Cog Railway, a United States heritage railroad. For information on using this template, refer to Template:Routemap. For pictograms used, see Commons:BSicon/Catalogue
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 ...
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.
5. Amtrak's Coast Starlight. Seattle to Los Angeles. Widely regarded as the most dazzling West Coast train route in the U.S., Amtrak's Coast Starlight links Seattle to Los Angeles. Lush forests ...
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 ...
Anacortes Railway (Defunct) Chehalis–Centralia Railroad; Chelatchie Prairie Railroad; George Benson Waterfront Streetcar Line (Closed in 2005) Issaquah Valley Trolley (Closed in 2020, reopening proposed) Inland Northwest Rail Museum; Lake Whatcom Railway (Out of Service since 2019) Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad
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.
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