Morning at Manitou. Early morning sunshine illuminates the face of Manitou & Pike's Peak Cog Railway car no. 19 as it awaits the start of the day shuttling riders up the 12-25% grades o... (more)
A group of ROTC recruits enjoys some time atop "America's Mountain" while the first train of the day to the top rests after the 9 mile climb up 25% grades from Manitou Springs.
The Cog's newest passenger unit is #25 built in 1989, seen here about to descend into the station. The base of the Cog Rwy is what those of us in the Appalachian region would call a "holler&q... (more)
This is the engineer's view of one of the four 214 passenger articulated diesel-hydraulic rail cars while sitting at the top of Pikes Peak. Their is an identical driver's compartment at the downhi... (more)