Download or read book Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway written by Fred Runner and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Download or read book The Crookedest Railroad in the World written by Theodore G. Wurm and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is a readable history of the railway's 30 years of existence -- its planning and construction, branch lines, methods of operation. Read about how it pioneered in novel equipment, watering wheels, heating feedwater in the stack, and being one of the first to use oil burning locomotives exclusively"-- book jacket.
Download or read book A Trip Over the Crookedest Railroad in the World written by Frederick Francis Runyon and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mailer souvenir depicting photographs along the Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway (previously known as the Tamalpais Scenic Railroad) route. Includes a brief history of the service from boarding the ferry to traveling on the railroad.
Download or read book The Crookedest Railroad in the World written by Ted Wurm and published by Gem Guides Book Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine 281 curves, which make 42 complete circles in 8.5 miles of track. This book, filled with 216 photos, tells the history of California's Mt. Tamalpais and Muir Woods railroad, known as "The Crookedest Railroad in the World."
Download or read book Early Mill Valley written by Claudine Chalmers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mill Valley rests in the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, the tallest peak of the Coast Range. Ancient redwood groves cloaking the mountain's flanks and nearby canyons attracted a pioneer sawmill that gave the town its name. As the timber industry was replaced by dairies, Mill Valley became a destination for those drawn to beauty: hikers, campers, naturalists, artists, writers, and dreamers who gave the town its early bohemian atmosphere. Tamalpais Scenic Railway once ran the "crookedest railroad in the world" to the summit, where passengers exulted in the taste of salty ocean winds, rolling fog, and stunning vistas of the inner bay and ocean shores. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt reserved some of the area's majestic trees, now national parkland webbed with 200 miles of scenic trails, and named them Muir Woods for naturalist John Muir.
Download or read book Historic Resource Study for Muir Woods National Monument written by John Eric Auwaerter and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decisions of the Railroad Commission of the State of California written by Railroad Commission of the State of California and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Visitor s Guide to Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods written by Michael Hanrahan and published by Michael Hanrahan. This book was released on 2012 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Decisions written by California Public Utilities Commission and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Railway Wonders of the World written by Clarence Winchester and published by . This book was released on 1936* with total page 1604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mount Tamalpais and the Marin Municipal Water District written by Jack Gibson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mount Tamalpais rose from the land that has become Marin County. As the crown jewel of the Marin Municipal Water District, the mountain and adjoining watersheds total 22,000 acres. These properties sit adjacent to county open space as well as holdings of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Mount Tamalpais State Park. Together, the land provides an unparalleled world-class recreation and wilderness area only 30 minutes from the city of San Francisco. Amidst the upheaval of the Progressive Era, the Water District was chartered in 1912 by citizens of Marin County to create a public water system and to fulfill the promise of a park. Rich with possibility, the land had remained surprisingly undeveloped throughout the 19th century. Surviving the Gold Rush, a notorious period of wanton greed for natural resources, the mountain needed protection. Armed with the power of eminent domain, the Water District started the conversion of the vast watershed areas from private to community ownership, a process that ultimately saved the mountain and left in its formidable shadow the beloved and beautifully preserved natural land of the Mount Tamalpais Watershed.
Download or read book Early Mill Valley written by Claudine Chalmers and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mill Valley rests in the shadow of Mount Tamalpais, the tallest peak of the Coast Range. Ancient redwood groves cloaking the mountain's flanks and nearby canyons attracted a pioneer sawmill that gave the town its name. As the timber industry was replaced by dairies, Mill Valley became a destination for those drawn to beauty: hikers, campers, naturalists, artists, writers, and dreamers who gave the town its early bohemian atmosphere. Tamalpais Scenic Railway once ran the "crookedest railroad in the world" to the summit, where passengers exulted in the taste of salty ocean winds, rolling fog, and stunning vistas of the inner bay and ocean shores. Pres. Theodore Roosevelt reserved some of the area's majestic trees, now national parkland webbed with 200 miles of scenic trails, and named them Muir Woods for naturalist John Muir.
Download or read book American Inventor written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Percy Jackson and the Olympians Book Three Titan s Curse written by Rick Riordan and published by Disney-Hyperion. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third book of the acclaimed series, Percy and his friends are escorting two new half-bloods safely to camp when they are intercepted by a manticore and learn that the goddess Artemis has been kidnapped.
Download or read book Rail Trails West written by Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and published by Wilderness Press. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this newest edition in the popular series, the Rails-to-Trails Conservancy presents the best of the West. With 70 rural, suburban, and urban trails threading through 1,050 miles, Rail-Trails West covers 60 trails in California, eight in Arizona, and two in Nevada. Many rail-trails offer escapes from city life, like the Mount Lowe Railway Trail, high above the buzzing Los Angeles basin on a rail line vacationers once took to a mountaintop resort. Others offer the pure sensory thrill of sweeping terrain, like Arizona's 7-mile Prescott Peavine Trail. Still more juxtapose the natural world with the railroad's industrial past, like Nevada's Historic Railroad Hiking Trail, which passes through five massive tunnels to reach Hoover Dam. Every trip has a detailed map, directions to the trailhead, and information about parking, restroom facilities, and other amenities. Many of the level rail-trails are suitable for walking, jogging, bicycling, inline skating, wheelchairs, and horses.
Download or read book Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of California written by Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of California and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of California written by Board of Railroad Commissioners of the State of California and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
