Tag: Virginia Truckee Railroad
The Ghosts Have Nearly Gone
If I had a time machine, my first journey (after taking care of some personal business) would be to Goldfield. I'd set the chronometer to arrive on the morning of July 4, 1923. I'd...
Sparks: A Town of Two Times
by Wendell Huffman
Sparks was created in the early 20th century as part of the Union Pacific Railroad’s modernization of the Central Pacific line across Nevada. The old division point at Wadsworth, where trains were...
Virginia City Correspondence – December 2016
The V & T Candy Cane Express Train
All aboard the holiday train! The Virginia & Truckee Railroad will host three week-ends of enchanted holiday trains aboard one-hundred-year old decorated vintage rail coaches, November 25,...
Johnny Bartholomew: Hero on the V&T Railroad
by Mark McLaughlin
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In its heyday during the 1870s, Virginia City rivaled cosmopolitan San Francisco and the Barbary Coast as the most exciting and wildly indulgent city in the Far West. An important key to...
NevadaGram #169 — Lovelock Cave, Comstock Mining Update, Nevada Correspondence and More
One of Nevada's greatest attractions to visitors goes mostly unmentioned, even by our most enthusiastic promoters: Time Travel.
This is conveniently accessible and easy to do here, and one enjoyable way to do it is...
NevadaGram #103 – From Reno To Winnemucca and Back By Train
I mentioned in an earlier NevadaGram (not getting the NevadaGram yet? Sign up here) that there will be an almost-impromptu birthday party for Edna Purviance in October at Winnemucca.
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NevadaGram #93 – Open Studios in Tuscarora, the California Trail Interpretive Center
As winter gives way to spring, the state shakes off the last of its snow with a spate of Memorial Day celebrations. The most unusual of them takes place in Tuscarora in odd years,...
NevadaGram #73 – Rolling Thunder, More on Roy Frisch and More Nevada Stars
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