Yellow cog railway train descending a grassy mountainside, steaming – Antique Print
(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare historic image captures Yellow cog railway train descending a grassy mountainside, steaming in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Yellow cog railway train descending a grassy mountainside, steaming
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A yellow cog train is shown easing down a grass-covered mountainside, with steam still drifting from its stack. Cog railways like this one use a toothed rack laid between the rails, which lets a locomotive haul cars up grades too steep for ordinary wheels to grip. Going downhill is the harder half of the job, since the train must hold back its weight on the slope rather than push forward. Mountain lines of this type, first built in the late 1800s, opened tourists to high peaks that had been reachable only on foot or by horse.
| Original scan | 3,008 × 2,000 px · prints to 10 × 7 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 734200643_6343cfc32b_o the cog rail descending rich moffit |
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