New Cog, Same Old Tricks – Historic Railway Marks 130th Birthday
*Note: This audio essay first aired on KRCC (Colorado Springs’ NPR affiliate, 91.5 FM) on June 24, 2021. The link to the program is here; the audio file and the text from the essay are below. Guts, smarts, and money. Those three things helped make the cog rail in Manitou Springs happen. The guts came from a Civil…