The "sisters" are now in charge of the high-and-wide move between Bartlett and North Conway as CSRX 6516 leads the train over a small creek east of Bartlett.

Plenty of eyes... on the ground, on board the train and even in the air carefully watch the special move as it departs Crowford Notch. CSRX 573 leads FP9s 6516 and 6506, a two-piece electri... (more)

On the return trip to the station, White Mountain Central Climax #6 has to stop to take water. From behind the steam, the fireman prepares to take care of this job in the rain and steam.

9154 basks in the evening light.

Livin' on the edge. A Mt. Washington Cog Railway train crests the hill above Skyline Switch and enters the more gentle grade of the Homestretch Flats. Immediately behind the train, the... (more)

Cogscape - The Presidential Range. Mt. Washington is the tallest in a series of connected peaks that are called The Presidentials, because they are named for past US Presidents. In this... (more)

Steam, up close. White Mountain Central Climax #6 readies to depart from Clark's Trading Post on the short round trip.

Waumbek MWCR No. 9 does what it has done for over a hundred years, taking happy tourists to the top of the highest mountain in all of New England, 6288' Mt. Washington. While transversing Long Tre... (more)

Alex the brakeman gives us a friendly smile as the WAJO NANATASIS, the "Cog's" first diesel shoves it's lone car up Mt. Washington. The sound it makes at all times is one of a great big fan. If yo... (more)

MWCR No. 2 Ammonoosuc on Jacob's Ladder. Here is the culmination of a 50 year wish full-filled. As a child, I vowed to see this one day. I always knew it to be one of the only 100% steam railways ... (more)

MWCR No. 9, "Waumbek" battling a grade that has reached 37%, is above Long Trestle and about to reach the "Homestretch Flats", "flats" being a relative term. You can see why Mt. Washington is also... (more)

Ammonoosuc MWCR No.2 creates her share of what the hikers call "cog smog." The thing is, she has been doing so since, (I believe) the 1880's!

Cogscape - Long Trestle. Perhaps no other spot on the Mt. Washington Cog Railway shows off the altitude gained by the trains better than Long Trestle at 5300 MSL. Here, as we face north... (more)

Steam Meets Steam in the White Mountains. Mt. Washington Cog Railway trains regularly pass each other in two places on the line. The first is at the Waumbek Tank at 3800 MSL. The second... (more)

Cogscape - The Homestretch. The first steam trip of the day makes the leisurely climb up the the segment of the line known as the Homestretch Flats...the final half mile to the summit. ... (more)