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.)
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.
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.
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."