Title:
Shay engine No. 3 of the Mount Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railroad in front of the Muir Woods Inn at the edge of the canyon forest
Creator:
A.C. Graves-Pennington Collection
Subject:
Railroads
Railroad locomotives
Taverns (Inns)
Mountains
Canyons
Forests
Railroad passenger cars
gravity cars
Forest reserves
National monuments
National parks & reserves
Mount Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railroad
Muir Woods Inn
Description:
Shay engine No. 3 at the end of the Muir Woods Branch, stopped in front of the Muir Woods Inn at the edge of the canyon forest.
Smoke and steam are seen rising up from the pipes sticking from the top of the smokestack are part of the mechanism of the
"Porcupine" feedwater heater. Sign "Muir Woods" visible on side of open air passenger car. Notation at top of photo reads
"Beautiful California, Muir Inn, Mt. Tamalpais, California. Trains of the "Crookedest Railroad in the World" climbed to the
summit of Mount Tamalpais and coasted by gravity car to Muir Woods.
Publisher:
Mill Valley Public Library
Contributor:
Lucretia Little
Date:
circa 1919
1954, second revised edition 1960
Type:
image;
Format:
1 photographic print: 24.5 x 17 cm.
Identifier:
CMLPL_070
photo cabinet 2, Railroads Mill Valley, Mount Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railroad
Source:
Selected photograph from page 58 of "The Crookedest Railroad in the World" by T. G. Wurm and A. C. Graves
Language:
eng;
Coverage:
Mill Valley (Calif.); Mount Tamalpais
Rights:
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