Charles Hobden’s grandfather, Joseph Hobden, stands in front of the Pikes Peak Cog Railway train in the 1920s. Zalmon Simmons, inventor and founder of Simmons Beautyrest Mattress, completed the railway in 1890 after riding to the summit of Pikes Peak on a mule. He thought after the two-day trip that there should be a more comfortable and “civilized” way to make the trip and got the idea of a train from the owner of a hotel where he was staying. Broadmoor hotel owner Spencer Penrose bought the railway in 1925. Now called the Broadmoor Pikes Peak Cog Railway, it is closed as it undergoes a $100 million rebuild. It is scheduled to reopen in 2021.