Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images) The railway will celebrate its 130th anniversary at the end of June. The train ride takes riders through Pikes Peak's famous pink granite in the Pike National Forest. It is the world's highest Cog railway train going up 7,600 feet of vertical gain to the 14,115 foot summit. The ride takes just over three hours to complete the 8.9 mile ascent and 8.9 mile decent of Pikes Peak. The train will have five departures a day. The railway will be opened for four days from May 20th-23rd and again on May 27th when it reopens to the public seven days a week. Today marked the first day since October 2017 that the almost 130 year old train is making its again way to the summit of Pike Peak. At left are Christine McDonald, left, and her son Cameron, 16. MANITOU SPRINGS, COLORADO - MAY 16: Kiaya Kies, 3, waves to people on a passing train full of people, while sitting on her mother Becky"u2019s lap as they ride on the Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway train towards the summit of Pikes Peak on in Manitou Springs, Colorado. MANITOU SPRINGS, COLORADO - MAY 16: Conductor Adam Clawson, center, gives a high five to Julep Sims, 4, after describing to her parents Torah and Tyler Sims, right, and her brother Rowan, 2, left, what the ride will be like aboard The Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway train as it sits in the station before heading up to the summit of Pikes Peak on in Manitou Springs, Colorado. Manitou and Pike Peak Railway Cog Railroad
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