Nevada Southern Railway

The Dam Railroad, or how the railroad that built Hoover Dam became a railroad museum

by Peter Barton In late December 1928 the United States Congress authorized construction of the Boulder Dam Project, the largest single civil engineering project conceived up to that date. To build the dam, they first built a railroad, or more accurately three railroads; the Union Pacific Boulder City Branch, the U.S. Government Railroad and the ...
The Dam Railroad, or how the railroad that built Hoover Dam became a railroad museum