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Outside Lands Podcast Episode 235: Zoo Trains

We remember all the trains in the San Francisco Zoo, from the Little Puffer to the playground locomotive to the Elephant train.
Outside Lands San Francisco Podcast - Jul 29, 2017

Outside Lands Podcast Episode 235: Zoo Trains Outside Lands Podcast Episode 235: Zoo Trains

(above) Fleishhacker Playground, circa 1925

View north, 'Little Puffer' Steam Train, Engineer Peter Neilsen at the controls. (Area at right would later be developed as Fleishhacker Zoo.)

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