The cog railway is requiring visitors to wear a mask on the train, and the city of Manitou Springs has also kept its mask mandate in place. "Predicting demand, you obviously do it for business planning purposes, but to say that anybody can predict demand is just foolish." "If we had been trying to reopen last year, we would have been in a world of hurt," Johnston said. He said the railway had up to 300,000 visitors back in 2017, but it's hard to predict what will happen this year as COVID-19 restrictions continue to ease around the state. "People waving to all of us on the platform as the train departed, it was really just like, we've done it," Johnston said. Johnston said the railway had a test run this past weekend with Broadmoor employees ahead of the opening. "Seeing people come through the doors, and have for most people a once-in-a-lifetime experience of taking the cog railway to Pikes Peak." "It's just exciting to move out of a project phase and into an operations phase," Johnston said. He said he's hoping with the demand for travel destinations, the railway will see large numbers of visitors over the next few months. The railway invested $100 million in new tracks and cars, shipped in from Switzerland, to carry folks up to the summit of Pikes Peak.Īssistant general manager Ted Johnston said it's one of only a few cog railways in the United States. The Broadmoor Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway has finally opened to the public after closing in 2017 for improvements.
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