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The Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad, a railroad of 100.4 miles (161.6 km) in length in the U.S. state of Nevada, [1] offered point-to-point service between Mina and Goldfield, [2] running over the Excelsior Mountains and parallel to the Monte Cristo Range. It operated from 1905 until 1947.
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 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.
Baldwin Class 04-36-D 0-6-0 switcher engine, with 20x26 in. cylinders, 52" drive wheels, build number 29712. Weight was 135,000 lbs. Alongside sister locomotive #4, #3 worked on the BGRR from 1906 to 1908, then becoming property of the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad after their merger with the Bullfrog Goldfield.
The Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad was a 197.9-mile (318.5 km) railroad built by William A. Clark that ran northwest from a connection with the mainline of the San Pedro, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake Railroad at Las Vegas, Nevada to the gold mines at Goldfield. The SPLA&SL railroad later became part of the Union Pacific Railroad and serves as ...
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Millers came to life as a result of the furor in Tonopah. In 1901 the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad was constructed and by 1904 Millers was founded as a station and watering stop along the rail line. The name of the town honors Charles R. Miller, a director of the railroad who was
Goldfield Railroad: 1904 1905 Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad: Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad: UP: 1905 1918 N/A Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad: SLR UP: 1916 1987 Union Pacific Railroad: Nevada Railway: 1878 1879 Nevada Central Railway: Nevada and California Railroad: SP: 1884 1893 Nevada–California–Oregon Railway: Nevada and California ...