The first train to the summit of Mount Tamalpais on August 26, 1896
Creator
Roy D. Graves
Contributor
Nancy Skinner, Ted Wurm
Date Created and/or Issued
August 26, 1896 1983 1954, Second revised edition 1960
Publication Information
Mill Valley Public Library The Academy Library Guild, Fresno, California. Second Revised Edition Howell-North Books; Trans-Anglo Books Division of Interurban Press P.O. Box 6444 Glendale, CA 91205
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Description
Train full of journalists in open air rail cars, on opening day, first train trip up the mountain, for the the Mount Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railroad. Locomotive is pulling train, but trains were pushed up the mountain thereafter
Type
image
Format
2 photographic prints: 20 x 13 cm. and 28 x 21.5 cm.
Railroads Mountains Railroad locomotives Railroad passenger cars Journalists Open air railroad passenger cars Mount Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railroad, the crookedest railroad in the world
Place
Mount Tamalpais
Source
Selected photograph from page 30 of "The Crookedest Railroad in the World" by T.G. Wurm and A.C. Graves; Selected photograph from page 19 of “The Crookedest Railroad in the World” (1983 edition) by Ted Wurm and Al Graves
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