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This is a route-map template for a Nevada passenger rail network.. For a key to symbols, see {{railway line legend}}.; For information on using this template, see Template:Routemap.
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.
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 ...
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 1939 City of San Francisco derailment occurred along today's Elko Subdivision, near a rail siding called Harney, between Beowawe and Palisade. [4]In the 1980s both tracks were relocated out of downtown Elko along the banks of the Humboldt River, [5] resulting in Elko having two historical train depots downtown, with neither connected to track today.
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The Central Corridor is a rail line operated by the Union Pacific Railroad from near Winnemucca, Nevada to Denver, Colorado in the western United States. [1] The line was created after the merger with the Southern Pacific Transportation Company by combining portions of lines built by former competitors.