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Title
Gravity car and train from the Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway in the Mill Valley station
Creator
Unknown
Contributor
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1910?
Publication Information
Mill Valley Public Library
Contributing Institution
Mill Valley Public Library
Collection
Mill Valley History Photograph Collection
Rights Information
Copyrighted
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Mill Valley Public Library
Mill Valley Public Library History Room, 375 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, CA, 94941, 415-389-4292 x131
Circa 1910
Copyright by Mill Valley Public Library
Description
Gravity car filled with passengers in front of train from Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway sitting in Mill Valley station. Steam is emanating from the locomotive. A detached open air passenger car is on another track to the right of the train. Passenger cars from the Northwestern Pacific Railroad can be seen on the next track to the left of the photo in the shade behind the sheltering structure covering the passenger platform. The station, some houses on the hill and the top of Mount Tamalpais can be seen in the background.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print: 17.5 x 12.5 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1b69q7g5
CMLPL_118
photo cabinet 2, Railroads Mill Valley, Mount Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railroad; negative 1845
Language
English
Subject
Railroads
Railroad stations
Railroad locomotives
Mountains
Mountain railroads
Railroad passenger cars
Open air railroad passenger cars
Open air gravity railroad passenger cars
Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway
Mill Valley and Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway
Northwestern Pacific Railroad
Place
Mill Valley (Calif.)
Mount Tamalpais

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