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Northern section of the route in 1908 Route in 1908 Southern portion of route in 1908 Driving the golden spike at Goldfield, Nevada, circa 1905.. The main line of the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad Company extended from Beatty 78.95 miles (127.06 km) in a general north-northwesterly direction to Goldfield.
Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad. 0.0 mi: 0 km . Rhyolite . 1.4 mi: 2.3 km . ... This is a route-map template for the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad, a Nevada railway.
The railroad of Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad Company, hereinafter called the carrier, is a single-track standard-gauge steam railroad lying just inside and about midway of the southwestern State line of Nevada. The main line extends from Beatty 78.95 miles in a general north-northwesterly direction to Goldfield.
The name was changed to the Goldfield Passenger in February, 1917. The train was unnamed during operation by the United States Railroad Administration from July 1, 1918, until March, 1920, when the train to Tonapah was renamed the Tonopah Express. A decade later, the great depression ended Pullman passenger train service to Tonopah in 1930. [5]
Bullfrog Junction (MP 241.59), junction point for the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad and the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad. Goldfield (MP 242.69), originally a station of the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad, also joint operated with the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad. The T&T had an agency here until 1914 when it was rerouted over the LV&T tracks to ...
The northern end of the line (Beatty to Goldfield) was only in operation from 1908 to 1914. That 80 miles (130 km) of track was removed during World War I. The Las Vegas and Tonopah continued to serve the Bullfrog Mining District at Beatty until 1917/1918. By 1919, the remaining 110 miles (180 km) of track was abandoned and scrapped.
The historic Rhyolite mining district and town was in the Bullfrog Hills. The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad crossed the hills to its Rhyolite Station via the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad [broken anchor]. The Bullfrog mining district was located along the south margin of the hills.
In 1906, a group of promoters formed the Y&OR for the purpose of completing an electric railway link between Youngstown and the Ohio River. Initially they leased the tracks of the Pittsburgh, Lisbon and Western (PL&W) between Washingtonville and Salem and strung trolley wire over the seven-mile (11 km) stretch of tracks. Construction began from ...