The "Impossible" 19th-Century Train They Built to the Clouds
7.1K views · Sep 25, 2026 · People & Blogs
Comments · 11
@burtonmendel6441 · 3 days ago
In 1974 I and my son rode the cog railroad to the top of Mt Washington.Absolutely memorable!<br>Burt Mendel
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@WilsonLeatherman · 1 day ago
Yes, some of the trains seemed inappropriate. But a couple did show why they wouldn't work.
@AML-FRL · 4 days ago
👍🚂🚃🚃👍🍀
@jackthompson-lr2hc · 3 days ago
As usual, the AI images are awful. They can’t even animate the drive linkages properly.
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@JonFoley-q3v · 4 days ago
The story was extremely accurate and well done. But the photos were mostly wrong. The locomotives were not rack locos except for a very few shots of Peppersach. The trackwork mostly showed the wrong rack system. Also the trestles were not accurate. The AI didn’t help with the story.
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@DonWoodworth-x1m · 2 days ago
This presentation, while broadly true, is about 50% rubbish with a very large number of irrelevant, incorrect, or simply out of place illustrations having absolutely no bearing on the construction of the Mt. Washington Cog Railway. If you're going to produce a documentary about this line (and there is tons of information available to get it right), do it correctly or don't do the half-baked effort here that does as much to lead uninformed viewers astray as it does to inform them. The presentation is hogwash! )-:
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@chrislong3938 · 4 days ago
Whenever I see something about cog-trains, I go straight to Pinky and the Brain!<br><br><b>Brain:</b> Now, Pinky, if by any chance you are captured during this mission, remember you are Gunther Heindriksen from Appenzell. You moved to Grindelwald to drive the cog train to Mürren. Can you repeat that? <br><br><b>Pinky:</b> Mmmm, no, Brain, don't think I can.
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