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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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are always protected by the engine. The two, how-ever, are never coupled, and the coaches are provided withpowerful individual brakes that operate through cogs on therack rail. By this arrangement a coach can be stopped in-stantly and independently of the locomotive. There are sixstations on the lines besides the terminals, each situated atsome special point of interest along the scenic route. Threewater tanks are met with, as the engines require considerablewater. Word pictures of the scenery on the climb up Pikes Peakhave been framed too often to need repetition in this article,but it may be mentioned that, although there are higherpeaks, there are few other accessible elevations on earth thatafford so extended a range of vision or a view so varied andinspiring as that from the summit of Pikes Peak, the reasonfor this being that the other accessible mountains, havingelevations approaching that of Pikes Peak, are in the midstof a chain of mountains; consequently the views from their
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TYPE OF CAR FOR THE MANITOU & PIKES PEAK RAILWAY summits are uninterruptedly mountainous and the range ofvision is restricted by the surrounding heights. The terminus at Manitou is situated at the end of the Colo-rado Springs & Manitou Electric Railway, near the famousUte iron springs, and it can be reached directly by no lessthan eight steam railroad lines. The round trip can be madefrom Denver to Pueblo in one day, and from.Manitou in fourhours. Manitou with its 35,000 inhabitants is, as is wellknown, one of the most famous resorts in the West, its greatscenic beauties having earned for it the title of the Switzer-land of America. The waters of its mineral springs are nowshipped to all parts of the world. The United States ob-servatory at the summit of Pikes Peak is one of the mostinteresting places on the journey. Sunrise excursions whichare run weekly by the railway in the latter part of the sum-mer are exceedingly popular, sometimes the entire equipmentof the road being r

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