On July 13, 2007 Dave and I rode the Cog Railway up Mt. Washington. The pictures from that trip are below. To see pictures from a 2004 trip that Dick and Sandy took up the auto rode, click here.

The base station has a display showing how the cog meshes with the center rail.

Some real old trains!

Our train.

For most of the journey they was one track, but occasionally there are two sets of tracks to allow for passing trains. Photo at the right shows a close-up of the cogged rail.

At some places the track was at more than a 30 degree angle. That made for interesting walking inside the train car. The last photo shows the engineer from a passing train.

The ride up was at 3 mph - it took more than an hour to make the trip to the top. We were below the clouds most of the way up, but at the top we were in the clouds. Temp. was 50 degrees, wind perhaps 20 mph. After 20 minutes at the top, the clouds lifted as we were getting on the train.

On the way down, we backed onto a shunt track so a train could pass us. The conductor had to manually switch these tracks four times: to shunt for us to back up, to main for the other train, to shunt for us to rejoin the main track, to main for regular travel.