Narrow Gauge to the Redwoods. The Story of the North Pacific Coast Railroad and San Francisco Bay Paddle-wheel Ferries
1974 · Carona del Mar
by Dickinson, A. Bray
Carona del Mar: Trans-Anglo Books, 1974 Second edition, revised, third printing. Edited, with added material, by Ted Wurm and Alvin C. Graves. Quarto. 168pp. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of black & white photographs, equipment rosters, scale plans, maps and layouts; bibliography and index. Brown cloth lettered in silver, map endpapers. A fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket (light foxing to jacket at fore-edge). Includes over 200 rare nostalgic photographs from the collection of railroad man, Roy D. Graves along with complete equipment rosters, 15 scale plans for the modeler, and 15 maps and yard layouts. The photos and informative text cover the lifetime of California's fascinating North Pacific Coast narrow gauge railroad and its paddle-wheel ferry line which once carried thousands of San Franciscans north across the bay to Marin and Sonoma Counties. This line linked Sausalito, San Rafael, Mill Valley, and ultimately reached the Russian River country in the redwoods.. (Inventory #: 7979)