Summary

Description	This film, photographed from the front of a moving steam engine, shows the scenic portion of the Market Street Railway (formerly the Ferries and Cliff House Railroad route) along the bluffs and cliffs of Lands End, at the northwest corner of San Francisco, overlooking the Golden Gate and the Marin headlands. The film shows the first 1.5 miles of the 5.25 mile eastbound return trip from the Cliff House and Sutro Baths to the train terminal at California Street and Central Avenue (now Presidio Avenue). This scenic portion of the line was built at an elevation averaging 150 feet, affording superb views of the Golden Gate, the entrance strait to San Francisco Bay. Scene-by-scene description: The train heads just west of north from the Sutro Baths Station, near the Cliff House. Swinging right (northeast) the camera looks across the water to Marin County and Point Bonita, the northwest entrance of the Golden Gate. Mount Tamalpais rises in the background. The Marin headlands stretch to the ri
Date	1902
Source	www.loc.gov
Author	paper print collection (library of congress), thomas a. edison, inc

Licensing

Public Domain

Attribution: paper print collection (library of congress), thomas a. edison, inc, 1902