Fifty years later, the climb gained steam power with the Mount Washington Cog Railway, which has been ferrying passengers up the 3-mile track ever since. Today, more than 150,000 people make the ...

In their 156 years of climbing to the summit of Mount Washington, the Cog Railway locomotives have gone from burning wood to burning coal to burning oil to burning diesel to burning biodiesel.

Bob Krug's visit to the Mount Washington Cog Railway in New Hampshire certainly fits the description of going the extra step to creating a great railroad image. With Mountain Washington ...