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Mountains could have a gravity cars

By Hicbd
Tue Jan 19 2021 8:03 am

"The Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Railway used steam engines to transport trainloads of visitors up the mountain, and gravity cars – so called because they used the energy efficient force of gravity – to take the visitors down...At day’s end, the daring would climb aboard the Gravity Car, and the “Gravity Man” would “turn on the gravity”, and down they would coast over 8 1/4 miles, around 281 turns on the mountain’s 7 % grade to the Mill Valley depot or Muir Woods."

URL:
https://www.friendsofmttam.org/railroad/gravity-car-barn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_railroad

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Categories:
Public Transportation Tourism / Attractions San Francisco / Bay Area Trains / Railroads Mountains Roller Coasters

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