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Little Manitou Falls at Pattison State Park, WI.
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Just some of the gorgeous scenery from our vacation. This is Cafe Manitou all lit up during twilight. The cafe is part of the Homestead resort. It has lake front views to sit under an umbrella and watch the sunset while you dine. Quite enjoyable I must say.
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The Little Manitou Falls located in Pattison State Park, south of Superior, Wisconsin, on the Black River. Best viewed on black, just click on "L", or in large. Processed in Photomatix Pro.
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The Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, also known as the Pikes Peak Cog Railway, is an Abt rack system cog railway Pikes Peak Mountain. The railway starts at a depot in Manitou Springs, with an altitude of 6,571 feet, and reaches the summit at an altitude of 14,110 feet, making it the highest railway in North America by a considerable margin. Its tracks climb at an average 16% grade, but reaches a maximum of 25%.
The railway was started by Zalon G. Simmons, inventor and founder of the Simmons Beautyrest Mattress Company, in 1889, with limited service to the Halfway House Hotel starting in 1890, and summit access beginning in 1891. Originally, steam locomotives were built for the line, but operation was physically and financially challenging. Gasoline-powered internal combustion engined trains, believed to be the world's first rack railcars, were used starting in 1938, and in 1939, diesel locomotives were introduced. In 1964, the rail turned to the Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works who supplied two bright red cog railcars, which eliminated the need for a separate pushing locomotive. Today, the railway owns enough cog equipment to run six to eight trains per day and in 2006 began running year-round service.
A cog railway, also known as a rack-and-pinion railway or rack railway, runs on a toothed rack rail using trains fitted with one or more cog heels or pinions, allowing the train to operate at steep gradients. With few exceptions, most rack railways are mountain railways. The Abt System utilized by the railway was devised by Roman Abt, a Swiss locomotive engineer, in 1882. Using solid bars with vertical teeth machined into them, he improved over the earlier expensive Riggenbach design.
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Tug Manitou following John G.Munson down the St. Clair River - tug assisted with turning for and docking at Marine City