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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 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 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.
Central Nevada Museum is a non-profit local history museum in Tonopah, Nevada. The museum focuses on the preservation of historical records and artifacts of several counties in Nevada , namely Nye and Esmeralda , as well as several mining towns such as Belmont , Gilbert , and Weepah. [ 1 ]
Tonopah (/ ˈ t oʊ n ə ˌ p ɑː / TOHN-ə-pah, Shoshoni language: Tonampaa) [4] is an unincorporated town [5] in and the county seat of Nye County, Nevada, United States. [6] Nicknamed the Queen of the Silver Camps for its mining-rich history, [1] it is now primarily a tourism-based resort city, notable for attractions like the Mizpah Hotel and the Clown Motel.
Union Pacific Railroad: Nevada Railway: 1878 1879 Nevada Central Railway: Nevada and California Railroad: SP: 1884 1893 Nevada–California–Oregon Railway: Nevada and California Railway: SP: 1905 1912 Central Pacific Railway: Nevada–California–Oregon Railway: SP: 1898 1917 Western Pacific Railroad: Nevada Central Railroad: 1888 1938 N/A ...
This list of museums in Nevada encompasses museums which are defined for this context as physical institutions, (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for ...
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.