Cog railway track with central rack rail on mountain – Vintage Wall Art
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Cog railway track with central rack rail on mountain, a historic image rich in period detail. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Cog railway track with central rack rail on mountain
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Cog railways use a toothed rack rail laid between the running rails, which lets a locomotive climb slopes too steep for ordinary wheel-on-rail adhesion. This view shows that central rack running up a mountainside, the defining feature of the system. Railroads of this type were built in the late 1800s to carry tourists and freight to high summits, and the toothed track made it possible to haul trains up grades that would otherwise have been out of reach. Look closely at the rack and the ties beneath it, since their arrangement is what set these lines apart from conventional railroads.
| Original scan | 3,000 × 4,512 px · prints to 10 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 734184013_d6bfb106e8_o cog railway |
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