ANOTHER RAILROAD

Not just any old railroad, the Mount Washington COG Railway climbs a mountain! This little engineering marvel has been on my radar screen for quite some time, and yesterday at about noon, we pulled into the lower parking lot, reserved for mostly RV's. I had previously purchased our tickets online, for this mornings 9 am train, which is the only one of the day that you are guaranteed to have a steam engine pushing your car up the hill. We spent a couple of hours at the depot, watching the engines with one car, depart on the hour. It appears that the steam engine does a round trip every 3 hours, and 2 other diesels round out the hourly departures. Also at the depot, we walked through the museum and learned how this mountain climbing railroad came to be. It's a pretty neat story, and continues to be a popular attraction, about 140 years after it first began to operate. We'll probably hang out here after the train ride, and set sail tomorrow morning for Maine, then in a couple of days, cross the Canadian border into the Maritime Provinces