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Originally Posted by MichaelJ  The hikers are generally mooning the cog because it's a nasty, disgusting polluter belching enormous black clouds of coal smoke into the ski. It has since also become AT through-hiker tradition.
The cog has been building a new engine that's, I believe, biodiesel-fueled, so hopefully once that's in service they can copy it and get all the coal engines off the tracks. But it's still going to take time and until then, there will be sideways-smiling protesters. | It's a fairly dirty affair to ride it, too. We went on it on our honeymoon and I was covered in soot afterwards.
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