MTH Trolley runs around the town...........
Just in time for the Oct 31st
I am a person with a very active inner child. This is why my wife loves me so. Willoughby, Ohio - the home of the CP & E RR. OTTS Founder www.spankybird.shutterfly.com
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Celebrating 18 years on the CTT Forum.
Buckeye Riveter......... OTTS Charter Member, a Roseyville Raider and a member of the CTT Forum since 2004..
Jelloway Creek, OH - ELV 1,100 - Home of the Baltimore, Ohio & Wabash RR
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Me at the Mt. Washington Railway in New Hampshire.
Laz....Mount Washington is a very interesting and somewhat weird place with the weather changing by the second. I see you had some fog when you were on the summit. Trail hikers have been killed on the mountain when they became lost in the fog and over a cliff they went.
When I rode the cog we were in front of this:
Didn't get up early enough, did you?
Laz and Buckeye, thanks for the photos of Mount Washington Cog Railway. We have relatives in New Hampshire not far from there but it's ironic that we never rode it. Looks like the steam engine would have been more interesting but I suppose they had to go to internal combustion sooner or later. We did see the Conway Scenic Railway in North Conway and visited Steamtown when it was in Bellows Falls Vermont before they moved it to Scranton, Pa.
Ray
SPMan
Ray....The steam engine is very interesting, especially how they brake the car going back down the mountain. I believe the diesel engines run on bio-gradable fuels. Maybe Laz remembers. We rode the Conway Scenic RR too. The station is absolutely one of the best preserved anywhere, including Durango.
BUCKEYE and RAY,
The steamer cog on Mt. WASHINGTON is only run on Sundays now start time is 8AM. It is a 3.5 hr. ride up and back. I was told that this might be the last year for the staemer then all will be done with the diesels. The temperature at the bottom of the Mt. was at 80 and atop the MT. was 50 with 25 feet visability. We had also experienced a burst of hail too. The amazing thing atop the Mt. was we missed seeing the weather station because of the fog. I later saw it on photos. Also the building that was held down by chains made me wonder how many buildings were blown apart before they chained it down?
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