Might be interesting fact in connection with the "ex power plant" version. New wooden Cliff House had an electric elevator installed:
According to this mentioned 1896 book Sutro Baths, heights and Cliff house.
Not quite exact, but some similarities in the title:
Conjectures on the cause of rain, storms, the aurora, & magnetism; with a suggestion for causing rain at will. By G.A. Rowell
Here is the link to the complete photo album in good resolution with a descriptions to each picture.
It says that the wood ties were made mostly of larch and pine.
Amazing album, but I have no idea why some photos were "photoshopped" ??
We have Pennsylvania, California, now Oxford, UK:
May all these cases be connected, what do you think ?
Maybe there are other "explosions", I don't know, these 3 just caught my attention from the news recently...
"This unusual fish-shaped boat belonged to Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh, who was forced out of his kingdom into exile by the British in 1856. After the Uprising of 1857, the boat was sunk and this photograph staged to symbolically mark the end of the Nawab’s era."
The above narrative...
I have just visited the Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini to take a look :
The area I pointed in red was severely damaged, stains of dark paint are visible (blue arrows). It might not be the map at all..
The fragments in yellow (Pandolfo Malatesta, San Sigismonda, dogs, castle) are 100% painted...