Mt. Washington features the most famous of this type of railway, named for the gear teeth that pull it uphill
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Worm drive - Wikipedia  A worm drive is a gear arrangement in which a worm meshes with a worm gear The two ... Given a single start worm, a 20 tooth worm gear reduces the speed by the ratio of 20:1. ... This type of gearing can support the highest loading. ... Unlike with ordinary gear trains, the direction of transmission (input shaft vs output shaft)...
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Enjoy your TRAINS PDF package! - Trains Magazine  The Strange Case of the Celebration Train That Got Out of Gear ... gauge Mount Washington Cog Railway, 3.17 .... pull up. Approaching'. Jacob's Ladder. Another train can be seen .... Names of locomotives in the early days were very interesting. There was Hero (Pep ...... One of the most interesting features ... tooth in the.
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Mooning the Cog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  Mooning the Cog is a tradition in which hikers bare their buttocks to the Cog Railway on Mount Washington, the highest peak in New Hampshire. It is most...
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Rack railway - Wikipedia  A rack railway is a steep grade railway with a toothed rack rail, usually between the running rails. The trains are fitted with one or more cog wheels or pinions that mesh with ... The first mountain cog railway was the Mount Washington Cog Railway in the .... It uses a rolled flat-bottom rail with rack teeth machined into the head...
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Jeopary Questions page 1609 - GOSPEL TRUTH - TriviaBistro.com  NEW HAMPSHIRE: Mt. Washington features the most famous of this type of railway, named for the gear teeth that pull it uphill  I'VE WON AN OSCAR & AN...
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Funicular - Wikipedia  A funicular also known as an inclined plane or cliff railway, is a cable railway in which a cable attached to a pair of tram-like vehicles on rails moves them up and down a steep slope, the ascending and descending vehicles counterbalancing each other. ... Two-rail configurations of this type avoid the need for switches and crossings...
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Cog Railway - White Mountain History  History of the Cog Railway, Mount Washington Railway, ... the Cog Railway, or simply the Cogwas chartered by the New Hampshire State ... 1868, and began to run passenger excursions part way up the mountain, to the top of Jacob's Ladder. ... The first official passenger trip to the summit took place on July 3, 1869.
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Mount Washington Cog Railway - Wikipedia  The Mount Washington Cog Railway is the world's first mountain-climbing cog railway (rack-and-pinion railway). The railway is still in operation, climbing Mount Washington in New Hampshire, USA. ... Marsh came up with the idea while climbing the mountain in 1852. His plan was ... Running the Railroad[edit]. Sylvester...
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UP: Chronological History - Union Pacific  UP opens the Sun Valley Resort in Idaho, the country's first western ski resort. It features the nation's first ski lift with chairs, invented by railroad personnel in...
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Incline Railway | Lookout Mountain  America's Most Amazing Mile, the Incline Railway, runs up Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga. Get hours and tickets for this popular attraction.
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Gear - Wikipedia  A gear or cogwheel is a rotating machine part having cut teeth, or cogs, which mesh with ... A gear can mesh with a linear toothed part, called a rack, thereby producing ... When two gears mesh, if one gear is bigger than the other, a mechanical ..... a mechanism is used in automobiles to convert the rotation of the steering...
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False Teeth  George Washington's Mount Vernon  As a result, he spent his life in frequent pain and employed a variety of tooth cleaners, dental medicines, and dentures. These dentures are in the collection at...
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Golden Spike Monument - www.rgusrail.com  Jan 1, 2009 ... "Jupiter" and #119 are at the upper middle of this photo. ... Above, "The Engines Touch Noses", from Edwin L. Sabin, Building the Pacific Railway (1919). ... The photograph was taken at Promontory on 10th May 1869. ... Because the transcontinental railroad had not yet been completed at that time, all four...
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Full text of "The story of the Pullman car" - Internet Archive  At first these primitive railways were built exclusively to serve the mining ... This first railway carriage for the transportation of passengers was aptly .... in the new rail- road, and railroad travel became immediately the most popular diversion. ..... was named the " Delmonico," and was operated on the Chicago & Alton in 1868.
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Lost Capitol Hill: Storage at the Navy Yard. | The Hill is Home  Feb 11, 2013 ... The first president to ride in a train was Andrew Jackson, who took the short trip from Ellicott's Mills to Baltimore in 1833. Thereafter, train travel became the norm, with Abraham Lincoln using this mode of transport to ... Built to transport robber barons around the country in the highest style, they were the...
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Mt. Monadnock New Hampshire - Hiking, Mountain Climbing  Open all year, Mount Monadnock State Park is sometimes referred to as The Grand ... this 3,165-ft. mountain summit is the most frequently climbed mountain in North ... Mark Twain and Abbott Thayer are a few names associated with the original ... When you emerge above the timberline, you will have some steep rocks,...
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First Railroads in North America - Central Pacific Railroad ...  Nov 13, 2004 ... "The Transfer of Pioneering British Railroad Technology to North ... Fourth, in 1810, Lieper built a heavier, wooden, horse-powered railroad to haul stone from his ... Twelfth, during 1826, a civic group building the Bunker Hill monument, north of ... The Granite Railroad of 1826 has frequently been incorrectly...
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Slide Mountain (Ulster County, New York) - Wikipedia  The mountain received its name locally from a landslide in ... Slide would not be established as the highest peak in the range until 1886, long after ... and famous writing about his hikes up Slide and other ... peeling hemlock bark for tanning, built a hotel and did a...
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Pullman Co., George M. Pullman, Chicago, Pullman's Palace Car ...  Rather they pay homage to the Pullman railroad car by using the term to describe the ... The York Motor Car Company of York, Pennsylvania manufactured a ... reflect the same kind of quality and luxury offered by the rail car manufacturer, which ...... by angry employees, Pullman had made special provisions for his burial in...
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Fairfax: Birthplace of Mountain Biking | Adventure Sports Journal  Repack Road is infamous in the mountain biking community as the trail ... After an hour or so, everyone heads home to enjoy Thanksgiving with their families. ... but it also hosts one of the greatest high school mountain biking teams in the country, ... that the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame has been relocated from Crested Butte,...
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Elisha Graves Otis - American Society of Mechanical Engineers  From 1838 to 1845 Otis lived in Brattleboro, VT, where he constructed a gristmill ... he also found time to invent a railway safety brake that could be controlled by the ... A hoist was required to lift heavy equipment and machinery to the upper floor. ... installed on either side of the elevator shaft, thereby bringing the falling hoist...