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Here a Mount Washington Cog Rwy. http://www.thecog.com/ train has just left the top of Mount Washington and is descending the very steep tracks, most of which is above the tree line.
Locomotive GREAT GULF is coaling up for another run up Mount Washington in New Hamshire, the 2nd heighest mountain in the East behind Mount Mitchell in North Carolina. This is just one of the several engines that the Cog Railway http://www.thecog.com/ has operating.
Another photo from my trip to the Colorado Rail Museum. This is one of the various steam engines that the M&PPRY used to climb to the top of Pike's Peak - a journey from roughly 6000' elevation to 14,110'. The cogged track is visible at the base of the locomotive