Yes, this page is here to sell you this book:

Why Buy The Book?

The website you just went through was simply a skeletal story of the railroad. The book goes into greater detail about what the railroad was about.

What you will find in the book:

• Over 200 vintage photos.
• Schedules, maps and adverts
• The Story of John Muir, for whom the Muir Woods is named
• Much more on the early automobiles that challenged the mountain
• Lots of information on the locomotives and cars that ran the line
• The day the Railroad line was snowed in
• A chapter on what it took to start, run and stop a locomotive
and
• greater detail of whatever I covered on these pages.

Where I've tried to give a good amount of information within the context of a quickly-loading webpage, the book is able to give a more complete story. Where I've tried to give a representative collection of photos and keep the download times for those of us with 28.8 connections reasonable, the book has hundreds of photos and other items for an afternoon's looking over without waiting for the images to make it over the line.

So feel free to buy a book for your collection. Or maybe buy a copy or two for your local libraries.

	Crookedest Railroad in the World ISBN Number #0870460633
Other books written about or inspired (in part) by Mt. Tamalpais:
	A Rambler's Guide to the Trails of Mt. Tamalpais ISBN Number: #9994956264 Hiking Marin : 133 Great Hikes in Marin County ISBN Number: #0961704489
	Mountains and Rivers Without End ISBN Number #1887178570 This book was hailed as a masterpiece upon its publication in 1995 and has been compared favorably with Leaves of Grass and other great American Poems since. It includes The Circumambulation of Mt. Tamalpais.

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