Show was big railroad project the summer brings the ot of the opening of the SIL ML washington ID ton railway which 60 50 bears i ears ago distinguished the white mountain region of 0 new england by making it the location for the first important mountain railroad in the country remarkable railroading to high altitudes lias has since been accomplished but the climb of some feet to the summit of the highest of the white mountains was then regarded almost as an achievement of the impossible and it did tor for that matter immediately make mt washington possible to many a tourist who would have babe spent his bis life at the bottom rather than try then to climb to the top oil on foot I 1 |