Mount Tamalpais scenic railway
By: Fred Runner
Series: Images of rail; Images of rail
Publisher: Arcadia Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780738559421
Description: "A hundred years ago, high on the summit of Mount Tamalpais, stood a grand lodge with a breathtaking view. For 33 years, elegantly dressed men and women came to visit on the gritty steam trains of a famous twisting railroad known affectionately as the Crookedest Railroad in the World. They could dine, dance, and spend the night, and in the morning coast down the mountain in a gravity car. The Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway had 281 curves in 8 1/5 miles. It had a branch into Muir Woods. It was built by business-minded conservationists in seven months in 1896 and climbed from a depot on the dirt streets of Mill Valley through a redwood forest and on to the rocky summit one-half mile above San Francisco Bay"--P. [4] of cover.
Notes: Captioned photographs.
Table of contents: title: When steam climbed the mountain; title: People make a railroad; title: Marsh, Lee Street, and the Local; title: Bridge 7 and beyond; title: The double bow knot; title: On to West Point; title: The summit; title: Rails to Muir Woods; title: Burned and scrapped; title: Epilogue.