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Photograph of railroad train at Death Valley Junction, California, 1940

Date

1940

Archival Collection

Description

A picture of Tonopah and Tidewater no. 7 at Death Valley Junction, California.

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Photograph of Pioche Pacific railroad train, Jackrabbit, Nevada, 1949

Date

1949

Archival Collection

Description

A picture of Pioche Pacific 2-6-0 number 2 at Jackrabbit, Nevada.

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Train at the Union Pacific Railroad depot in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1900 (year approximate) to 1999 (year approximate)

Description

From the UNLV Libraries Single Item Accession Photograph Collection (PH-00171). Shows UP train and partial view of the depot.

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Photograph of train cars at railroad yard, Las Vegas (Nev.), early 1900s

Date

unspecified decade in 19XX

Description

Train coaches on the tracks of the Las Vegas Railroad Yards. (Likely taken early 1900s?) Homes and buildings are visible in the distance.

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Photograph of train tracks, Lincoln County (Nev.), circa 1907

Date

1906 to 1908

Description

Railroad tracks lead off into the curves of a mountain. Picture taken off the back of a train route to Pioche.

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Photograph of an Amtrak train, Las Vegas, October 28, 1979

Date

1979-10-28

Description

A crowd of people standing around the Amtrak train in Las Vegas, welcoming Amtrak's inaugural trip.

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Photograph of children on a train at Last Frontier Village, Las Vegas (Nev.), 1949

Date

1949

Description

Pat Murphy & Garry Dillingham sitting in and on a train at the Last Frontier Village in Las Vegas in 1949. Site Name: Last Frontier Village (Las Vegas, Nev.)

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Photograph of a burro pack train, circa 1880s-1890s

Date

1880 to 1899

Archival Collection

Description

A burro pack train hauling basketry supplies. Two Indian women are riding burros. A young man rides one of the loaded burros, and another, hiding his face, is standing behind the other loaded burro. The three riders are identified on the photo, L-R: Dora Lee, Clara Lee, & Gus Lee. The location of the photograph is unknown. Possible locations are Ash Meadows or Pahrump, Nevada.

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Postcard of a Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad train, Millers (Nev.), 1933

Date

1933

Description

A Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad train takes on water and fuel at Millers, NV, winter, 1933. "The winter of '33 was one of the most severe recorded in central Nevada up to that time. Snow isolated many outlying communities for weeks at a time and temperatures dropped to the -30s. On a number of occasions the trains were marooned in the snow drifts between Millers, Tonopah and Goldfield and had to be dug out by hand."

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Narrow gauge ore train on the standard gauge tracks of the T&T Railroad, Nevada: photographic print

Date

1933

Description

 From the Nye County, Nevada Photograph Collection (PH-00221) -- Series II. Ash Meadows, Nevada -- Subseries II.B. Toles Family. Train was used to haul clay from the Bell Pit to an off-loading ramp.

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