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1910 train schedule. In 1906 the 118-mile (190 km) trip from Las Vegas to Beatty took 6 hours. Trains operated daily until February 1, 1917, and then became tri-weekly until abandonment. The LV&T depot at Rhyolite still remains. It was constructed in 1909 at a cost of $130,000 (equivalent to $1,017,333 in 2023). [2]
A decade later, the great depression ended Pullman passenger train service to Tonopah in 1930. [5] Discontinuance of the Express name and Pullman service might be because the final leg of the journey, from the Southern Pacific main line at Hazen, Nevada , over the N&C and T&G to Goldfield, had become very slow. [ 1 ]
The track system begins at Bennett Avenue/5th Street going south out of Cripple Creek, goes past the old Midland Terminal Wye, then over a reconstructed train trestle, continues past historic mines and terminates very near the abandoned Anaconda mining camp. The return trip to Cripple Creek completes a total of 4 miles (6.4 km). [5]
Excursion train hauled by locomotive No. 40, in 2005. #40 was purchased new in 1910 for $13,139. In a series of donations beginning in 1986, Kennecott transferred the entire Ore Line, as well as the railroad's yard and shop facilities in East Ely, to the White Pine Historical Railroad Foundation, a non-profit organization that today operates the property as the Nevada Northern Railway Museum ...
Nevada Central Railway: 1879 1888 Nevada Central Railroad: Nevada Copper Belt Railroad: NCB 1909 1947 N/A Nevada Northern Railway: NN 1905 1983 Northern Nevada Railroad: Nevada and Oregon Railroad: SP: 1880 1884 Nevada and California Railroad: Nevada Pacific Railway: UP: 1889 1889 Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway: Nevada Short Line ...
The railroad, originally owned by the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, was transferred to the Kennecott Copper Company in 1933 when it took over Consolidated's mining operations. Passenger service on the Nevada Northern stopped in 1941, [16] and the depot was used for Kennecott offices until 1985. The state of Nevada acquired the depot in ...
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The original plan was that the train would travel at speeds of up to 150 miles per hour (240 km/h) averaging 130 miles per hour (210 km/h) and making the 186-mile (299 km) trip from Victor Valley to Las Vegas Valley in about 1 hour 24 minutes. [8] [9] That was subject to funding that never was allocated for the project. In 2018, Brightline West ...