Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railroad, 1926
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2011
- Footage compiled from film in the collection of the Anne T. Kent California Room, Marin County Free Library. Edited and scored by Librarian & Digital Archivist Carol Acquaviva.
The Mount Tamalpais and Muir Woods Railroad ran from 1896 until 1929 between downtown Mill Valley to near the summit of Mt. Tamalpais, with a second line descending the West side of Mt. Tamalpais to Muir Woods beginning in 1907.
The first part of this film from 1926 depicts the journey taken from the San Francisco Ferry Building (notice the cars boarding the ferry), across the bay, to Sausalito. From there, passengers would board a passenger train to Mill Valley. At the Mill Valley depot, an open-aired train traveled up the mountain, on the "Crookedest Railroad in the World." At the terminus was a tavern; the one pictured here was the third incarnation, rebuilt after a fire in 1913.
The second part of this film begins at the Tavern of Tamalpais where, travelers depart on a motorless gravity car, which traveled down to Muir Woods.
This is great to see! Thanks for sharing.
What a thrill it would have been to go up the mountain in those days, great footage from beginning to end, thank you
wowo greatest footage of SF and Marin Bay and more...1929
Nice movie! The mu-sick is about 15 years off as the Roaring Twenties were the Jazz Age not the time of the big bands. The Tavern lasted until 1951 when it was torn down by the Marin Municipal Water District after being essentially totaled in barracks use during WWII.
Fritz Basset I love jazz
I love the music
Hi Serano!
From Tamalpais Trails by Barry Spitz
Troop 80 Trail: "An old steel water pipeline is embedded in the Trail most all the way. It once brought water from several south side creeks (Rattlesnake, Spike Buck, Laguna & Fern) to the Belvedere Reservoir in Mill Valley then onto Belvedere" p118
Bootjack Trail: "Note the water pipes from the days when this meadow was site of Lower Rattlesnake Camp, later called Van Wyck Camp, one of the most popular of the Mountain's old gathering spots" p125
*Actually, the Tavern rebuild was after the fire of 1923.* The Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Ry. facilitated firefighting on the mountain in 1913 and 1919 as well as 1923. The Allah's Garden Fire, 2 - 4 July 1929, rendered the first four miles of main line unusable due to charred ties, damaged Lima Locomotive Works Shay Class B38-2 SerNo 1945 (MT&MWRy. fleet no. 7 at the time), and destroyed a water car.
tfw I was born a century too late
The people who allowed the removal of all this excellent rail transit in favor of traffic jams must have been borderline insane! How could we have let this happen?! SMH
Bring back the railroads! We used to have great rail transit until the oil lobby conned us into junking the tracks! We need to fix this historic injustice that herded us all into endless traffic jams!
Great footage. But the accompanying music .. .. .I think the word is anachronistic. That is the music sounds like a 1940s style. You're looking for a 20s style I would think.
What a great flick! Too bad footage was wasted on the cars loading on the ferry; there's nothing nostalgic about cars, even old ones. The auto killed this railroad just as it did with many others. Crappy, noisy buses even got into the action. How sad that Marin's biggest tourist attraction bit the dust with little notice in October of '29 (although no one knew it wasn't coming back in the spring on 1930 except those who made the decisions). Such an operation will never be seen again.
We really need to bring back all these railroads. Our cities and towns were built and shaped around them. They are the missing link to make transit viable in the car-hellscape areas like Marin.
The busses were always just an add-on to the highways built for cars. They can't work well because they operate on a system of roadways that is fundamentally incompatible with transit. We should just stop trying to shove busses down people's throats. If they could have worked as an alternative to cars and trains they would have by now, but they just don't!
The 1920s did have it's own music btw
West point inn care taker has removed the free water fountain offering as his solution instead ....the sale of small plastic water bottles at a dollar each. Nice work pal. Or you will be permitted to drink where people crap,....if you dont mind. We hope you make alot of money
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