Mount Washington Cog Railway
The Mount Washington Cog Railway, also known as the Cog, is the world's first mountain-climbing cog railway. The railway climbs Mount Washington in New Hampshire, United States.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Mount Washington and Mount Clay.
Mount Washington
Peak
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Mount Washington is an ultra-prominent mountain in the state of New Hampshire. It is the highest peak in the Northeastern United States at 6,288.2 ft and the most topographically prominent mountain east of the Mississippi River.
Mount Clay
Peak
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Mount Clay is a peak located in Thompson and Meserve's Purchase in Coos County in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It is a rise about 0.9-mile long and a few hundred feet tall, with summit elevation of 5,533 feet; it lies on the ridge joining the summits of Mount Washington, about 0.9-mile to the south-southeast, with that of Mount Jefferson, about 1.3-mile north.
Mount Monroe
Peak
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Mount Monroe is a 5,372-foot-high mountain peak southwest of Mount Washington in the Presidential Range of the White Mountains in New Hampshire, United States.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bretton Woods.
Bretton Woods
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Bretton Woods is a city in New Hampshire. It is a village within the town of Carroll, NH and is mainly famous as the location of the Bretton Woods Conference in July 1944 that attempted to rebuild the international economic system as World War II appeared to be coming to an end.
Mount Washington Cog Railway
- Type: Railway
- Description: rack railway in New Hampshire, USA
- Categories: rack railway and transportation
- Location: Coös County, New Hampshire, New England, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Portuguese—“Mount Washington Cog Railway” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Mount Washington Cog Railway”
- French: “Chemin de fer à crémaillère du Mont Washington”
- French: “Mount Washington Cog Railway”
- German: “Mount Washington Cog Railway”
- Italian: “Mount Washington Cog Railway”
- Japanese: “コグ鉄道”
- Japanese: “ワシントン山コグ鉄道”
- Japanese: “ワシントン山登山鉄道”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Washington Cog Railway”
- Norwegian: “Mount Washington Cog Railway”
- Polish: “Mount Washington Cog Railway”
- Portuguese: “Mount Washington Cog Railway”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Marshfield Station and Alpine Gardens.
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Explore places such as Monroe Brook and Jewell Trail.
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