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1915 map showing the route of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad Engine No. 18, Baldwin 2-8-2 built in October 1914. Photo at Tunnel #4, 2011 V&T train near collapsed Tunnel #1, around 1940, and the same view in 2014, both photos showing the shoofly (detour) around the collapsed tunnel
The V&T moved also key raw materials: copper from mines near Cleveland, Tennessee, lead from mines near Bristol, salt from Saltville, Virginia and saltpeter from caves throughout the region. Union forces finally captured much of the railroad and destroyed tracks and rolling stock in late 1864, although service was periodically interrupted by a ...
OpenRailwayMap (ORM) is an online collaborative mapping project developing a worldwide railway map using technology based on the OpenStreetMap project. The project is part of the OpenStreetMap database, and acts as a renderer for the existing OpenStreetMap database to include additional information for railroad lines worldwide. [2]
Virginia and Truckee Railroad No. 11, the "Reno", is a surviving 4-4-0, "American"-type steam locomotive.It is one of three largely identical 4-4-0 locomotives built by Baldwin for the railroad, the others being the Genoa and the Inyo, and one of four V&T 4-4-0's preserved (the aforementioned three as well as the Dayton).
The V&T being financially unhealthy at this time, simply got Dayton out of the way and left her until the snow melted in the spring. [5] In 1937, the locomotive, minus the plow, was sold for $1,000 [3] together with No. 22 Inyo to Paramount Pictures who then had the locomotive overhauled at the Southern Pacific Railroad shops in Sparks, Nevada ...
Virginia and Truckee Railroad No. 22, also known as the "Inyo", is a 4-4-0 "American" type steam locomotive that was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1875 and pulled both passenger and freight trains. The Inyo weighs 68,000 lb (31,000 kg). [2] Its 57 in (140 cm) driving wheels deliver 11,920 lb (5,410 kg) of tractive force. [2]
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1890 map of the national rail network. In United States railroading, the term national rail network, sometimes termed "U.S. rail network", [1] refers to the entire network of interconnected standard gauge rail lines in North America.