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The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad (reporting mark T&T) was a former class II railroad that served eastern California and southwestern Nevada. [1]The railroad was built mainly to haul borax from Francis Marion Smith's Pacific Coast Borax Company mines located just east of Death Valley, but it also hauled lead, clay, feldspar, passengers and general goods across the desert to a connection with ...
The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad−T&T (1904−1940) — a former borate mining railroad in the eastern Mojave Desert of California and Amargosa Desert of southwestern Nevada. Pages in category "Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad"
In response, Smith started his own competing railroad, the Tonopah and Tidewater to the Goldfield boomtowns in direct competition with Clark. [1] Rhyolite railroad station (July 2006) The Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad was incorporated on September 22, 1905. On March 1, 1906, the track was completed between Las Vegas and Indian Springs.
The T&T Ranch was operated by employees of the railway company. The technology at the farm was ostensibly run by the University of Nevada. [1] The first foreman of the demonstration farm was Harry P. Gower, an employee of the Pacific Coast Borax Company – the company that owned the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad. [2]
Predecessors of the Tonopah and Goldfield (T&G) Railroad, including the Tonopah Railroad, began operations in 1903. [2] The decade of the 1900s was a period of frenzied railroad-building in southwestern Nevada, with rich silver ore discovered at Tonopah in 1900 [ 3 ] and gold -bearing quartz at Goldfield in 1902. [ 1 ]
Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad (reporting mark BG), incorporated by interests of the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad, later merged with the Tonopah and Tidewater and the Las Vegas and Tonopah. Central of Georgia Railroad (CG), owned by Norfolk Southern Railway [33] Central Maine and Quebec Railway (CMQ), owned by Canadian Pacific Railway
Sister locomotive was BGRR #4. Became property of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad in 1908. Never used on the railroad, and sold to the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad becoming their 2nd #3. Later sold to the Ludlow & Southern Railway becoming their #3, and eventually ended up with the Utah Copper Co. as their #400. #4 Baldwin
Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad (24 P) Pages in category "Defunct California railroads" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 209 total.