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Title
Gravity car headed to Muir Woods on the Mount Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railroad
Creator
Unknown
Contributor
Chuck Ford Photography
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1915
1983
Publication Information
Mill Valley Public Library
Trans-Anglo Books Division of Interurban Press P.O. Box 6444 Glendale, CA 91205
Contributing Institution
Mill Valley Public Library
Collection
Mill Valley History Photograph Collection
Rights Information
Copyrighted
Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner. In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. Images from the Mill Valley Public Library will be credited with the standard credit line: Courtesy of the Lucretia Little History Room, Mill Valley Public Library (and to the photographer or creator if known). This credit line is to appear alongside the reproduction. If a publication or film/video production uses material it may appear at the end.
Mill Valley Public Library
Mill Valley Public Library History Room, 375 Throckmorton Avenue, Mill Valley, CA, 94941, 415-389-4292 x131
Circa 1915
Copyright by Mill Valley Public Library
Description
View of gravity car #21 on the Mount Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railroad, the crookedest railroad in the world. Car is headed downhill to Muir Woods. Car is filled with passengers. Each car held about 20 people. The conductor is on the far left of the photo.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print: 21.5 x 27.5 cm.
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt5870263p
CMLPL_071
photo cabinet 2, Railroads Mill Valley, Mount Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railroad; negative 1452
Language
English
Subject
Railroads
Railroad passenger cars
Forests
Mountains
Gravity cars
Forest reserves
National monuments
National parks & reserves
Mount Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railroad
Place
Mount Tamalpais
Muir Woods
Source
Selected photograph from page 46 of “The Crookedest Railroad in the World” by Ted Wurm and Al Graves;

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