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ushing a passenger train up a 14,110-foot mountain is no easy task. The first trains used were steam locomotives designed by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia. Each of these trains had heavily tilted boilers to keep them level on the average 16 percent grade up the mountain. The railway had three steam locomotives named John Hulbert, Manitou, and Pikes Peak, which were later changed to Engines 1, 2, and 3. These engines were not coupled to the coach; they simply pushed the train car up the mountain and slowed it down during the descent. Each steam engine had to be filled with water three times during the ascent—once at the beginning, once halfway up, and a final time before the 25 percent-grade point called Big Hill.
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The Pikes Peak Highway is a 19-mile toll road that runs from Cascade, Colorado to the summit of Pikes Peak in El Paso County, at an altitude of 14,115 feet. It is at least partially open year-round, up to the altitude where snow removal becomes excessively difficult. The Pikes Peak Highway was constructed in 1915 and financed by Spencer Penrose at a cost of $500,000.
An earlier road up the mountain, the Pike's Peak Carriage Road, dates back to 1888. Thousands of tourists traveled along the Pikes Peak Carriage Road up to Pikes Peak's summit. It was opened by the Cascade Town Company in 1888 and closed in 1902.
The highway has been home to an annual automobile and motorcycle race called the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb since 1916. Another race is the Pikes Peak Cycling Hill Climb (formerly Assault on the Peak), first held in 2010. The 2016 edition was also the first edition of the USA Cycling Hill Climb National Championship. Mateo Arruinador was the first USA Champion in USA Cycling Hill Climb National Championship.
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Pikes Peak, Co / Jun 1959 / JCH
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Pikes Peak, Co / Jun 1959 / JCH
Pikes Peak, Co / Jun 1959 / JCH
Pikes Peak, Co / Jun 1959 / JCH
