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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.
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 ...
Millers came to life as a result of the furor in Tonopah. In 1901 the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad was constructed and by 1904 Millers was founded as a station and watering stop along the rail line. The name of the town honors Charles R. Miller, a director of the railroad who was
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.
Pages in category "History of Nye County, Nevada" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. ... Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad; Tonopah Mining ...
Goldfield Railroad: 1904 1905 Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad: Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad: UP: 1905 1918 N/A Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad: SLR UP: 1916 1987 Union Pacific Railroad: Nevada Railway: 1878 1879 Nevada Central Railway: Nevada and California Railroad: SP: 1884 1893 Nevada–California–Oregon Railway: Nevada and California ...
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 ...