The Mount Washington Cog Railway

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The November 1954 edition of The Railway Magazine contained an article by Robert Legget about the Mount Washington Cog Railway in New Hampshire. He was surprised to find that in 1954 it was claiming to be ‘the first mountain climbing railway in the world’.

It is beyond doubt that it is among the pioneer mountain railways of the world, but the first?

Here (below) are a few of the lines highlighted by a number of different AI searches all of which included the words ‘mountain railway’ in the search parameters. They are all interesting examples of engineering developments over time. No claim is made that this is an all-inclusive list! And, looking at the lines highlighted, it seems the search term, ‘mountain railway‘ might have been interpreted quite widely! ….

The Mount Washington Cog Railway

The featured image (above) shows original locomotive, ‘Old Peppersass’, exhibited at the base station of the railway. Locomotive No. 2, ‘Ammonoosuc’, is to the left of the i…

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