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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.
Corporate history.—The carrier was incorporated under the laws of Nevada, November 1, 1905, and is a consolidation of the Tonopah Railroad Company and the Goldfield Railroad Company. The object of the consolidation was to form a continuous line of railroad under one management between Tonopah Junction and Goldfield.
The first was the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad (LVTR), which began running regular trains to the city on December 14, 1906. [33] Its depot, built in California-mission style, cost about $130,000, [34] equivalent to about $4,550,000 in 2024. [27] About a half-year later, the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad (BGR) began regular service from the north.
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 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.
Union Pacific Railroad: Tonopah Railroad: 1903 1905 Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad: Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad: 1905 1946 N/A Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad: 1904 1940 N/A Utah, Nevada and California Railroad: UP: 1899 1903 San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad: Virginia and Truckee Railroad: 1868 1905 Virginia and Truckee Railway
Blair Junction was at the junction of the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad and the Silver Peak Railroad, located 0.7 miles south of the present Blair Junction on Nevada State Route 265. [3] On the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad, Coaldale was to the west and McLeans was to the east. A post office called Blair Junction was in operation from 1922 ...