. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . e boundless play,Of sunshine on its green away. And clear-cut hills of gloomy blueTo keep it safe rose up with a charmed ring to bindThe grassy sea, where clouds might find A place to bring their shadows to. The Mt. Washington inclined railway has been operated so long,and so often described, that surely I need say little about it here. Itsinventor was Sylvester Marsh, of Littleton, N. H., and its buildingbegan in 1866, but was not completed u
. Down east latch strings; or Seashore, lakes and mountains by the Boston & Maine railroad. Descriptive of the tourist region of New England . e boundless play,Of sunshine on its green away. And clear-cut hills of gloomy blueTo keep it safe rose up with a charmed ring to bindThe grassy sea, where clouds might find A place to bring their shadows to. The Mt. Washington inclined railway has been operated so long,and so often described, that surely I need say little about it here. Itsinventor was Sylvester Marsh, of Littleton, N. H., and its buildingbegan in 1866, but was not completed until 1869. The road has rails tobear the weight of, and guide its cars, laid in anarrow-guage track, likeany other road, upon a continuous low trestle-w^ork carrying it evenlyover the inequalities of the rocks; nor do the grades seem astonishinglysteep, except in Jacobs Ladder and at some other points, where theyamount to something over one foot rise in each three feet total length of the line is two and thirteen-sixteenths miles, and thetime of ascent about one and a half hours; but it takes much less timeto come down. 17(i. 177 The little locomotives, with tla-ir oddly tilted boilers and smoke-stacks, are able to drag the cars up this hill-track ])y a mechanismwhich is complicated enough, when it is remembered that many partsof the ordinary locomotive had to be readapted to meet the novelarrangement, yet is simple in its main principle. This is, the layingdown between the rails a third l)road rail, which is studded with cleatsor cogs, into which there tit the cogs of powerful driving wheels under-neath both engine and cars. As these wheels are turned by the loco-motives machinery they at once cling to and advance upon the inclinedcog-rail, and step by step (or cog by cog) the machine literally climbsthe iron ladder, supported and guided by the outside T-rails upon whichthe wheels rest. In going do\^Ti no steam is required, the speed beingentirely regulated by the
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