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The Manitou and Pike’s Peak Railway (also known as the Pikes Peak Cog Railway) is an Abt rack system cog railway with 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1435 mm) standard gauge track 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. It was built and is operated solely for the tourist trade.
