Railroads -- Nevada
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Austin City Railway Surveys
The Austin City Railway was a narrow gauge railroad built in 1881 by Allan A. Curtis from the terminus of the Nevada Central Railway at Clifton, Nevada, to the Manhattan Silver Mining Company mines, less than three miles away. The railroad went out of business in 1889. The collection includes surveys, and transit and level notes for the railroad route, showing geographical features, roads, and buildings.
Jim Bryant Papers
Carson and Colorado Railroad Records
The Carson and Colorado Railroad was incorporated in May 1880 to service the growing Mining Companies of the west Central Nevada and nearby California. Collection contains organizational papers, correspondence, land related documents, financial statements between 1880-1916. Bound volumes include accounts, waybills, freight and tonnage records and train registers.
H. H. Chandler Correspondence
Eureka-Nevada Railway Company Records
The Eureka and Palisade Railroad Company was formed in 1873 to serve the mines in the Eureka Mining District in central Nevada. The collection consists of the records of the Eureka and Palisade Railroad Company, 1873-1902; the Eureka and Palisade Railway Company, 1901-1911; and the Eureka-Nevada Railway Company, 1912-1945. Collection includes articles of association, minutes of meetings, correspondence, legal documents, financial accounts, operational records, maps, and printed material.
Memories of Early Nevada
Transcription of Frank Joseph Gorman's taped reminiscences of working on the Western Pacific Railroad in Nevada and courting his wife.
Nevada Company Records
Nevada Copper Belt Railway Company Records
Oroville and Virginia City Railroad Letter
Published version of a satirical letter addressed to Judge P. Van Clief of Downieville, California, from the offices of the railroad, chiding him for his opposition to the proposed railroad. Created by the Oroville and Virginia City Railroad on January 14, 1869.
Over the Sierra Nevada Mountains via the Western Pacific Railroad Feather River route
Thomas Pollok Brown was a publicity manager for the Western Pacific Railroad Company. Includes a travelog describing the route of the Western Pacific Railroad Company, map of the railroad's route across California, Nevada, and Utah, profile maps of the route from Oakland, California, to Salt Lake City, Utah, and the extension from Keddie to Bieber, California; and a poem, "The Feather River Canyon" by WPRR employee William Wikander (1940).