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Title
Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railway Double Bow Knot half way up Mount Tamalpais
Creator
Taber Photo, San Francisco, CA?
Contributor
Lucretia Little
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1896
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 1896
Copyright by Mill Valley Public Library
Description
A train is seen in the distance descending Mount Tamalpais through Double Bow Knot or The Loops, looking East. The track parallels itself five times within 2,000 feet in order to gain elevation. The railroad was 8.25 miles long with 281 curves. If they had been continuous, they would have made 42 complete circles.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print: 22.5 x 17.5 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt4p3025cn
CMLPL_119
photo cabinet 2, Railroads Mill Valley, Mount Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railroad; negative 1470
Language
English
Subject
Railroads
Mountains
Landscape photographs
Aerial views
Mountain railroads
Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad
Place
Mount Tamalpais

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