[PDF] Nevada Central eBook

Author : Michael Brown
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 19,99 MB
Release : 2013-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1304295443

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Western history buffs and rail fans will find a rich and interesting history of the mining town of Austin, Nevada and the narrow gauge railroad that served the town for almost 60 years, the Nevada Central Railroad. Several photographs and maps show the town and the railroad as it was.

Author : Mallory Hope Ferrell
Publisher : Heimburger House Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2010-06-04
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780911581614

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This deluxe narrow gauge volume traces the amazing story of this three-foot-gauge railroad that ran through the heart of the great American Basin. Built to carry the commerce of rich silver and gold strikes, the Nevada Central struggled against tremendous odds for six decades. Often called “a line in the sand,” the 93-mile-long rail route ran between Battle Mountain, where it connected with the Central Pacific, in a southwesterly direction to Austin, Nevada. Most of the rail was 35# iron; the struggling railroad line crossed 66 timber trestles between its end points. The railroad began construction in 1879 to help open up the vast and virtually unpopulated area of the Silver State. Running through some of the most barren and remote high desert sagebrush and mountain country in the West, the Nevada Central rolled down through the years with much of its original equipment, mainly because it could never afford to purchase anything newer. The line was finally abandoned in December of 1937 and was sold for scrap the next year. The narrow gauge equipment that forms a major part of the California State Railroad Museum collection came from the Nevada Central. In 1938, the late Disney artist Ward Kimball purchased the Nevada Central’s 1881-built #2 Mogul for $400. The former Sidney Dillon was transported to the orange grove where Ward and his wife, Betty, were building a new home. The locomotive joined a former Carson & Colorado coach, and Ward’s railroad collection started to grow. For author Ferrell, a former combat fighter pilot, this is his 20th book about railroads. He has been called the best-loved narrow gauge railroad author in the United States. The Virginia native has authored hundreds of railroad articles and won dozens of awards with his exquisite models. Ferrell’s picture collections of railroads and the Old West number well over 150,000 prints. Ferrell says his research on his latest book included “mixing with cowboys, sheepmen, ranchers and thirsty miners at Austin’s (Nevada) Golden Club Saloon, and listening to their stories of the real Old West.”

Author : Richard L. Orndorff
Publisher : Mountain Press Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :

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Most people think of Nevada as a land of casinos and drive-in wedding chapels punctuating vast expanses of desolate desert. But at the heart of the Basin and Range province, the Silver State is also a geologist's playground, with great topographic relief

Author : Nevada. Railroad Commission
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 30,10 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Corporations
ISBN :

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The First annual report of the Public Service Commission of Nevada is found in the Fourth annual report of the Railroad Commission of Nevada, 1911.