Cog Railway trains on Mt Washington. NH
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@SandInMyCrotch Mt. Whitney is on the Eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California, but it is fairly close to the Nevada border. It's the highest mountain in the 48 states.
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@SandInMyCrotch Congratulations on hiking up Mt. Washington. I doubt I will go back there again, and even if I did go back there, I would not make the climb. I did hike up 14,505 ft Mt. Whitney, but that was over 30 years ago. I won't be doing that again, not in this lifetime, anyway :)
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@30vixen With a maximum grade of 37.41% I have no doubt it would look like on a very cloudy day. Sorry you didn't get to ride it to the top.
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I visited in July 2011 on a very cloudy day. I never saw the Cog Railway but it looked as if the tracks were about to fall off the Earth as they vanished into the clouds.
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@Darren9077 its a fun ride going up, it can be noisy though with the Cogs cranking along with the engines itself working hard, but it can be unnerving going up Jacobs ladder because its a straight drop down.you should try it sometime, but be warned they really dont use the Coal engines anymore they mostly use their Diesel ones. and its not cheap to ride it, i went last summer up it on the Train and it costed 125 altogether for 2 people
Try driving up it.Then talk choo choo!
BeantownJim 3 months ago
@BeantownJim I've walked around Badwater in Death Valley, CA at -282 ft below sea level, backpacked to the summit of Mt. Whitney at 14,497 ft above sea level, rode a bicycle from San Francisco to L.A. twice, and from Portland, OR to L.A.. I've also driven in all 50 states and nine Canadian provinces, including north of the Arctic Circle in Alaska. Do that, then come see me if you want to talk, choo choo or not :)
shudderbug 3 months ago
I rode the 8:30 AM this Tuesday and it was pushed by a coal fired steam engine. My friend and I were the only riders.
CarlKnowsBest 4 months ago
@CarlKnowsBest Thanks. I was thinking they were only running diesels now. It's nice to know that the old engines are still running occasionally.
shudderbug 4 months ago