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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.
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.
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 is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is located at the north end of the Amargosa Desert about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Beatty . Less than 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Bullfrog are the Bullfrog Hills and the ghost town of Rhyolite .
ex-Bullfrog Goldfield #13 > #11 purchased 1917 scrapped 1954 [23] 179 American Locomotive Company 4-6-0: 1907 44753 ex-Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad #12 purchased 1917 scrapped 1952 180-181 American Locomotive Company 4-6-0: 1914 54979-54980 renumbered from #160-161 1918 scrapped 1952–1955 182-184 Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-6-0: 1922
BHP Nevada Railroad: BHP 1996 1999 N/A Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad: 1905 1928 N/A Caliente and Pioche Railroad: UP: 1906 1909 San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad: California, Arizona and Santa Fe Railway: ATSF: 1911 1923 N/A Carson and Colorado Railroad: SP: 1880 1892 Carson and Colorado Railway: Carson and Colorado Railway: SP: 1892 1905
In October 1906, the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad (LV&T) began regular service to Beatty; in April 1907, the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad (BG) reached the community, and the Tonopah and Tidewater (T&T) line added a third railroad in October 1907. [4] The LV&T ceased operations in 1918, the BG in 1928, and the T&T in 1940. [4]
A Pioneer town-site company was formed in 1908 and began grading roads and selling lots. In that year, a daily stagecoach began making runs between Pioneer and the mining town of Springdale, about 2 miles (3.2 km) to the northeast along the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad. Another daily stagecoach linked Pioneer and Rhyolite in 1909 along a road ...