I believe that she may have been on the cog rail. I was on the train this weekend, and I thought our "conductor" said that she was on the train when she was inspired to write "America the Beautiful."
Katharine Lee Bates was born on August 12, 1859 and died on March 26, 1929. Katharine Lee Bates would have been 69 years old at the time of death or 152 years old today.