Author: Robertson, Edwin "Bill",
Title: Early Mt. Washington Cog Railway Picture Book.
Description: Westbrook, ME, Edwin B. Robertson, (1997). VG lg sz PB. Signed by author. In 1865 Sylvester of Littleton, NH, obtained a charter for for ascending Mt. Washington by cog railroad. Four engines were designed and constructed with upright boilders and a single pair of cylinders from designs by Herrick Aiken, of Franklin, NH, who had first conceived the idea of a cog railway up Mt. Washington.

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