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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 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 ...
In accordance with the reorganization agreement of June 26, 1914, the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad Company conveyed to the Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad Company the line from Rhyolite (Bullfrog mine) to Beatty 7.79 miles (12.54 km), and from Bonne Claire to Goldfield 36.65 miles (58.98 km), total 44.44 miles (71.52 km).
Corporate history.—The carrier was incorporated under the laws of Nevada, November 1, 1905, and is a consolidation of the Tonopah Railroad Company and the Goldfield Railroad Company. The object of the consolidation was to form a continuous line of railroad under one management between Tonopah Junction and 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 ...
Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad (BLE), owned by Canadian National Railway [35] Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad (reporting mark BG), incorporated by interests of the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad, later merged with the Tonopah and Tidewater and the Las Vegas and Tonopah. Central of Georgia Railroad (CG), owned by Norfolk Southern Railway [33]
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 ...
ex-Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad #4, #5 & #8 purchased 1918 scrapped 1946-1950 [22] 178 Baldwin Locomotive Works 4-6-0: 1906 29726 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 ...