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Pikes Peak

(COLORADO SPRINGS, Co., SHOT 8/17/2004).Passengers reboard the Manitou and Pikes Peak Railway Cog Wheel Route car at the summit of Pike's Peak in the Pike National Forest near Colorado Springs Tuesday on their way back down the mountain. The Cog Wheel Route operates between 6 and 8 trips up and down Pikes Peak every day. Pikes Peak bills itself as the World's Most Visited Mountain. The elevation at the summit is 14,110 feet. The Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway (also known as the Pikes Peak Cog Railway) is an Abt rack system cog railway in Colorado, USA, climbing the well-known mountain Pikes Peak. The base station is in Manitou Springs, Colorado near Colorado Springs. The railway is the highest in North America by a considerable margin and the highest in the northern hemisphere. It was built and is operated solely for the tourist trade..(Photo by MARC PISCOTTY / © 2004)

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(COLORADO SPRINGS, Co., SHOT 8/17/2004).Passengers reboard the Manitou and Pikes Peak Railway Cog Wheel Route car at the summit of Pike's Peak in the Pike National Forest near Colorado Springs Tuesday on their way back down the mountain. The Cog Wheel Route operates between 6 and 8 trips up and down Pikes Peak every day. Pikes Peak bills itself as the World's Most Visited Mountain. The elevation at the summit is 14,110 feet. The Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway (also known as the Pikes Peak Cog Railway) is an Abt rack system cog railway in Colorado, USA, climbing the well-known mountain Pikes Peak. The base station is in Manitou Springs, Colorado near Colorado Springs. The railway is the highest in North America by a considerable margin and the highest in the northern hemisphere. It was built and is operated solely for the tourist trade..(Photo by MARC PISCOTTY / © 2004)