Does anyone make a model Cog Train

LGB used to in gauge 1.

I rode the one to view the Matterhorn (which was clouded over) , and w-a-a-a-y back when rode the one that runs up Pike's Peak, when it was still steam.  Wonder if anybody has even scratchbuilt a model of that last one or one of those steam engines, and it once was very well publicized and traveled.  Now I just hear about the auto road, although in one trip through Manitou Springs I drove to the "station", and trains were not running but one of the cog steamers was on display.

In old RMC's or MR's I vaguely remember ads of model cog roads but nothing more..and, I think, cable car setups...which I have, and I think you still can ride

in less exotic Pittsburgh (I can't remember, but is Pittsburgh's a cog road vs. a

cable car?), and another much more exotic foreign location, but not

in Switzerland where I think there are several.  San Francisco's famous trolleys

operate on what I vaguely remember as cables in the street, that the motorman

clamps something around the cable like a couple of brake shoes at the steeper

locations?

Do a search for ' Fama ' here on the forum, and see specifically the responses to  AltonH's post of last September,

 

Best, SZ

The old MR ads from the 70s/80s were for an On30 passenger cog train marketed by MRC. I've never seen one though.

 

LGB made this rack steam engine beauty that uses a gear under the engine that meshes with a gear strip in the middle of the track for traction.I think LGB made an electric engine that is for mountain climbing also.Pike's Peak in Colorado has(had)a working LGB cog railway in their gift shop.This is a post for Tinplate Bob to anser for all the details.

Dan

The MRC/Fama trains are Om (Meter guage) not On30.  The track is close enough to S gauge that you can run Flyer on it.  I've got a set buried deep away under the Great Plywood Glacier.

 

Flieshmann also has an HO cog locomotive or two.

 

Rusty