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The first thing you should know about the Manitou Incline is that you canât just walk up and start climbing it. In its outlaw days, before the former utility-railroad-turned-tourist-attraction was legal to climb, devotees could do that. They arrived by the thousands from near and far. But those freewheeling times led to trouble: The old railroad ties were deteriorating, the soil was eroding and people were getting injured, even dying. The base is at 6,500 feet and the summit is at 8,590 feet, a gain of more than 2,000 feet in less than a mile. That takes a tremendous toll on bodies â even ones accustomed to strenuous activity at high altitude â and it can take hours for El Paso County Search and Rescue to reach hikers in distress. ....
With a new era dawning for the highest attraction of its kind in North America, here’s a look at the history of The Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway: ....
Charles Hobden’s grandfather, Joseph Hobden, stands in front of the Pikes Peak Cog Railway train in the 1920s. Zalmon Simmons, inventor and founder of Simmons Beautyrest Mattress, completed the railway in 1890 after riding to the summit of Pikes Peak on a mule. He thought after the two-day trip that there should be a more comfortable and “civilized” way to make the trip and got the idea of a train from the owner of a hotel where he was staying. Broadmoor hotel owner Spencer Penrose bought the railway in 1925. Now called the Broadmoor Pikes Peak Cog Railway, it is closed as it undergoes a $100 million rebuild. It is scheduled to reopen in 2021. ....