NEVADA CENTRAL Sagebrush Narrow Gauge -- (Out of Print - LAST NEW BOOK)

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Nevada Central
Sagebrush Narrow Gauge
by Mallory Hope Ferrell
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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 0. 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.
Hard
bound, 8.5x11, 204 pages,
300+
photos.
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