The crew clears the tracks throughout the winter months to allow track maintenance to begin in the spring. The Appalachian Trail crosses The Cog Railway tracks. When visibility is over 60 miles one ...

No one has ever thought of cog railways as fast. Stadler and the meter-gauge Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn railway are working to ...

A ‘cog train,’ by the way, is a train with a central rail where the cog locks with teeth to carry the train up a steep descent and assist it in braking on the way down. Because of this unique ...

Through dense equatorial rainforest the train steamed ahead along Gabon's sole railway line, a vital yet unreliable cog ...

Mt. Washington Cog Railway: Climbing to the Clouds is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV ...

Jan 12, 2025 Jan 12, 2025 Updated Jan 15, 2025 The Mount Washington Cog Railway, which began operating the world’s first mountain-climbing railroad on July 3, 1869, is developing the world’s ...

Cog railways are a somewhat unusual way of train ... even though this track follows fairly flat terrain. Since the rail is built out of steel he quickly welded up a rack-and-pinion system to ...

Michael overnights at the fairy-tale Grand Hotel Giessbach and learns how the beautiful 19th-century hotel was saved for and by the Swiss people. In Rotkreuz, a centre for cutting-edge healthcare and ...