Pikes Peak By Rail (Cog Railroad in Colorado)

Travel to the top of America’s most famous mountain by train as it climbs from 6,500 to 14,115 feet above sea level. Enjoy 1933 motion pictures of steam as well as new scenes of restored steam loco number 4 with its distinctive compound sound. Watch 60-year old motion pictures of steam locos pushing flat car plows into snow drifts. Marvel at the railroad’s first rotary plow and see a newer rotary chew through the drifts. All 3 generations of the railroad’s diesels are represented. Watch power evolve from home-made number 7 to GE diesels and coaches, to the first Swiss 80 passenger rail cars, to 216 passenger articulated giants. Includes the newer trains being tested in Switzerland. The shop removes a diesel engine and the track crew changes out a tie. This is the latest revision of this program made in 1998. This historic footage was made before the railroad’s major renovation in 2018-2021. Many of these scenes are truly irreplaceable. Run Time 39:14.