9/26/11 - Day trip to Mt. Washington, NH

The Mount Washington Cog Railway is the first mountain-climbing cog railway in the world. The building of the railway began in 1866, with the first excursion to the top on July 3, 1869. Sylvester Marsh of Littleton, NH was laughed at and scorned by the New Hampshire Legislature, however Marsh was reluctantly allowed to build his "Railway to the Moon." Unlike most trains, these locomotives push the coaches up the mountain and hold the coaches back on the return trip back down. There is a cog rail in the center of the tracks that allows the trains to go up steeper grades. These pictures are at the Marshfield Base Station, Elevation of 2700'.