Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
A few boxcars, a passenger car body and some old automobiles converted to run on T&G railway tracks currently survive at Goldfield, Nevada, and a boxcar from the narrow-gauge days is now at the Laws Railroad Museum. [7] The Nevada State Railroad Museum is also in the possession of an old combine car body, caboose and former motorcar from the T&G.
Nevada Central Railway: 1879 1888 Nevada Central Railroad: Nevada Copper Belt Railroad: NCB 1909 1947 N/A Nevada Northern Railway: NN 1905 1983 Northern Nevada Railroad: Nevada and Oregon Railroad: SP: 1880 1884 Nevada and California Railroad: Nevada Pacific Railway: UP: 1889 1889 Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railway: Nevada Short Line ...
The railroad, originally owned by the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company, was transferred to the Kennecott Copper Company in 1933 when it took over Consolidated's mining operations. Passenger service on the Nevada Northern stopped in 1941, [16] and the depot was used for Kennecott offices until 1985. The state of Nevada acquired the depot in ...
Excursion train hauled by locomotive No. 40, in 2005. #40 was purchased new in 1910 for $13,139. In a series of donations beginning in 1986, Kennecott transferred the entire Ore Line, as well as the railroad's yard and shop facilities in East Ely, to the White Pine Historical Railroad Foundation, a non-profit organization that today operates the property as the Nevada Northern Railway Museum ...
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.
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
In 1860, William Russell's Pony Express used this route across Utah and Nevada for part of their fast 10-day mail delivery from St. Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California. In 1861, soon after the completion of the First Transcontinental Telegraph , the Pony Express was discontinued as the Transcontinental Telegraph now could provide quicker ...