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Old Train Thursday, Cog Trains

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Achenseebahn Cog Railways, Austria

Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway, 1890
Mt Washington Cog Railways.
Pikes Peak Cog Railway
First Cog Railways, Middleton Railway, West Yorkshire UK, 1812. Used to haul coal trains.
Sylvester Marsh built first Cog Railway in America on Mount Washington, NH in 1869
Vitznau-Rigi-Bahn Railways on Mount Rigi, Switzerland started 1871.
Mt Pilatus, Pilatus Cog Railways. 7000ft and a 48% grade
Eduard Locher, designed a whole new rack rail system due to the steepness. In the Locher system, there are none of the usual switches or points on the line, but rotary switches instead.
Another view of the Pilatus Cog.

Roman Abt, engineer developed the Abt Cog System in Germany in 1885.
Locomotive from the cog railway in Puchberg/Schneeberg in Austria.
The Schynige Platte Railway or Schynige Platte Bahn is another cog railway in Switzerland near Interlaken
The Schafbergbahn cog railway in Upper Austria
Invented by Emil Strub, 1896. Riggenbach Cog System.
Snowdon locomotive making its way up the mountain.