Take a Zip Trip tour of Mill Valley with KTVU and Friends of No. 9 board member, Eric Macris.

Among the challenging parts of restoring Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods engine No. 9 is recreating a complicated piece called the pilot....

Ryan Millerick, Don Millerick’s son, sent updated photos of No. 9’s boiler work this week.  The most dramatic shows the smokebox, the...

No. 9’s “V-twin” steam motor has been rehabbed— pressure washed, steam cleaned, primed, painted—and now mounted on the frame On Friday,...

The geared wheels of Mt Tamalpais & Muir Woods No. 9 make it a hill climber. It is an early “all-wheel-drive” vehicle, an unusual thing...

The heart of a steam locomotive is its boiler. Inside the bulky steel housing, an 1800º inferno burns furiously working to quickly turn...

The Friends of No. 9 have been digging deeply into the technical weeds in our restoration of Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Engine No. 9. By...

The City of Mill Valley and Friends of No. 9 have announced a proposal to place Engine No. 9 in front of Mill Valley’s City Hall, across...

The Friends of No. 9 are diving more deeply into the restoration of Engine No. 9, the last piece of the Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods...

The Mill Valley Historical Society and the Friends of No. 9 invite you to join us for an unusual event: On Saturday, July 23, 11am - 1pm...

Now that Engine No. 9’s tender has been restored, the next part of the historic locomotive to be worked on is the cab. Unfortunately,...

After more than four months of meticulous work, the restoration of No. 9’s 3300-pound metal tender has been completed. The tender is the...

Many thanks to Marin Magazine for their thoughtful article about No. 9 and our efforts to bring this historic engine to downtown Mill...

Our full sized model of Engine No. 9, hand painted by Mill Valley kids, has been moved from Depot Plaza to the Mill Valley Community...

On October 10, Friends of No. 9 and the Mill Valley Historical Society joined for a celebration of our art project. The project put a...

Restoration work on No. 9’s tender has been moving quickly. The corroded metal is being repaired, and four 5-gallon buckets of rust...

On Sunday, October 10, at 12 noon at Mill Valley's downtown plaza, the Mill Valley Historical Society and Friends of No. 9 will be...

In order to highlight Mill Valley’s railroad history and to help find a future home for Engine No. 9, we are building a life-size...

Our biggest step yet in the restoration of Engine No. 9 has begun: restoration of No. 9’s 3300-pound metal tender. The tender is the...

Very slowly, in tenths of an inch, the tender of Mt. Tamalpais & Muir Woods Engine No. 9 slid aft and sunlight shown on pieces that had...