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The Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad (BGRR) was a railroad lying just inside and about midway of the southwestern State line of Nevada.It was incorporated in 1905 to provide an outlet from the mining section near Beatty to the north over the lines of the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad and the Southern Pacific Railroad.
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 ]
The railroad of Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad Company, hereinafter called the carrier, is a single-track standard-gauge steam railroad lying just inside and about midway of the southwestern State line of Nevada. The main line extends from Beatty 78.95 miles in a general north-northwesterly direction to Goldfield.
Bullfrog Junction (MP 241.59), junction point for the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad and the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad. Goldfield (MP 242.69), originally a station of the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad, also joint operated with the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad. The T&T had an agency here until 1914 when it was rerouted over the LV&T tracks to ...
The town had its beginnings in 1906 to support the gold mines in the Slate Ridge area. It replaced an earlier camp known as Thorp's Wells which had started in the 1880s to process the ore from Gold Mountain. When the Bullfrog-Goldfield Railroad arrived in 1906 followed by the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad business boomed and the site was ...
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Upon abandonment of the railroad in 1917/1918, these locomotives were sold to the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, and the San Diego and Arizona Railway. When the LV&T merged with the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad in 1914, it also acquired its 6 steam locomotives, involving two 0-6-0 switcher locomotives, two ...
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