EARLY DAYS

“The wind blew a gale, men’s hats had to be tied or held on, women’s garments fluttered and snapped like the loosened topsail of a ship, one could with difficulty stand, and the passage over the uneven ledges was only effected after herculean effort and many ludicrous mishaps which created great hilarity.”

-Concord NH Patriot & State Gazette, Jul 28, 1869

A trip to the summit of Mount Washington on the Cog Railway during the summer of 1869 was not for the faint of heart! But neither was putting down a bloody, 4-year Confederate uprising, which perhaps explains why the 18th President of the United States quickly became one of its most devoted fans. 

read first-person accounts of what one of the first trips on the Cog Railway was like, including that of President Ulysees S. Grant.