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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Photograph Number/name Build date Builder Class Wheel arrangement (Whyte notation)Disposition and Location Refs. CP 1 Gov. Stanford: 4-4-0: Static display, California State Railroad Museum, Sacramento, California
The BHP Nevada Railroad (reporting mark BHP) was a shortline railroad that operated in Nevada from 1996 to 1999. BHP acquired the line from Nevada Northern Railway . Constructed by Utah Construction Company in 1908, [ 1 ] the railroad hauled copper ore concentrate from BHP's concentrator at Riepetown to Shafter, Nevada .
Northern" was a well-known code word among railroad workers for an establishment serving alcohol. [4] On March 20, 1931, [5] the Northern Club received the first Nevada gaming license. [6] [7] This was also the first gaming license issued to a woman, Mayme Stocker. [5] By 1941, Bugsy Siegel and Dave Stearns were operating the club. [8]
The railroad can be seen from various points along U.S. Highway 189 between Heber City and Vivian Park and the whistle can be heard throughout the valley. Locomotive No. 618 was used in the 2006 film, Outlaw Trail: The Treasure of Butch Cassidy. [25] The locomotive soon turned 100 years old as of July 2007.
The town was located at the former interchange point between the Southern Pacific Railroad and the Nevada Northern Railway, and came into being when construction of the Nevada Northern began in 1905. The Nevada Northern was constructed primarily to serve the copper mines and smelter near Ely, Nevada; cobre is Spanish for "copper."