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The cover of a booklet released by the railway to commemorate the Scott Special.Theodore Roosevelt is depicted on a horse, though he did not witness the event.. The Scott Special, also known as the Coyote Special, the Death Valley Coyote or the Death Valley Scotty Special, was a one-time, record-breaking passenger train operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (Santa Fe) from Los ...
Scott is the subject of the 1955 episode, "Death Valley Scotty," on the syndicated television anthology series Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. The actor Jack Lomas (1911–1959) played Scotty, who in 1905 had commissioned the "Scott Special," a passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
A map of the Death Valley Railroad running from Death Valley Junction all the way up to the mines at Ryan near Colemanite. The Death Valley Railroad (DVRR) was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge railroad that operated in California's Death Valley to carry borax with the route running from Ryan, California, and the mines at Lila C, both located just east of Death Valley National Park, to Death Valley ...
Scott Special: Los Angeles, California – Chicago, Illinois (the most well-known of Santa Fe's "specials", also known as the Coyote Special, the Death Valley Coyote, and the Death Valley Scotty Special: a one-time, record-breaking train that ran in 1905, essentially as a publicity stunt).
In 1955, No. 1010 was fired up by the Santa Fe for the final time for a television re-enactment of the Scott Special for the "Death Valley Days" program featuring the special train, in season 3 - episode 16 - “Death Valley Scotty”.
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July 9 - The Scott Special, an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway passenger train chartered by Death Valley Scotty for US$5,500, departs Los Angeles, on its record breaking run to Chicago, in just under 45 hours. [4] [5] July 11 - The Scott Special arrives at Dearborn Station in Chicago, 44 hours and 54 minutes after departing Los Angeles. [4] [5]
After the mines played out the town declined after 1914. In the 1920s the town became a supply point for the construction of Scotty's Castle located in Death Valley about 20 miles to the southwest. [3] The post office was called Thorp from June 1905 until July 1909 and then renamed to Bonnie Claire from July 1909 until it closed in December ...