Was The General a Unique Engine ?

Wow, that harbour scene in the background..

Dang! You can spend 30 minutes on just that one photo.

Their was a conventional loco assisted ride to the bottom for the fain of heart. IIRC, the never had a passenger derailment.

Now you know why I said that you will lose two or three days at least.

I have not read of any crashes.

Going even further away from the O.Post, I'll offer a couple more links from that era (almost) and then I'm out of this thread.

Apologies for going OT.

Another harbour scene for you.

The final video of Mt. Tamalpais at the link above, done by a teacher and some students and running 9:30, says that during the 34 years of operation there was one fatality and several critical injuries. It does not state whether these were passengers or workers. For comparison, Disneyland has had a number of fatalities during its

Rail is decidedly ON topic! Thanks for the links.

Appears to be a Steam Tug at the end of the wharf.

It does appear so, but my eyes keep getting drawn to the "smudge" by the gun carriages. Presumably that's someone moving around.

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is it one, or two tugs? thanks for the picture !!

It's one steamer apparently, named Relief, although there is another message saying that there are two steamers and Relief is actually the aft end of a paddle steamer

You can read the various comments at

Damn it! Found two pictures of the General from 1964.

Damn! That's another day gone.

There are a fair number of smudges in all of these photos, and yes they are caused by movement. Don't know for sure, but I'd guess these guys were shooting in the 1+ second range. Also, looks like one of the smoke stacks on the tug took a round!

I just have to draw the line somewhere! :)

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Slow lenses, big negatives, slow emulsions. The procedure for making an exposure involved taking off the lens cap, counting to one, or two, or whatever, then putting the cap back on. Shutters were not in universal use until much later. Lots of the pictures on Shorpy show "ghost people".

Slow lenses, big negatives, slow emulsions. The procedure for making an exposure involved taking off the lens cap, counting to one, or two, or whatever, then putting the cap back on. Shutters were not in universal use until much later. Lots of the pictures on Shorpy show "ghost people".

I did realise all that, but thanks anyway. It wasn't until I read the comments just how many people there are in the picture. The main group seem to be on the coaling/ballast staging.

I'm coming in very late to this, but I think there are actually three steamers in the photo. The outer one has a full length cabin, with an aft house with a lifeboat/launch on the roof. The pilot house roof is seen just above the curved roof of the Relief. The center boat has an aft structure with a boat on top as well, and you can see its pilot house, with a striped edge on its roof, just below the curved roof of the Relief. The pilot house of the Relief sits on top of the main deck's roof, so you can see through to the other two boats. The bow end of the Relief is shown.

Late and OT, sorry, Dale