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Tonopah Engine 45 Wooden Model

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Railroadiana, Trains Start Price:50.00 USD Estimated At:100.00 - 300.00 USD
Tonopah Engine 45 Wooden Model
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The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, the T&T, was a class II railroad extending roughly 200 miles through remote reaches of the Mojave Desert from the Santa Fe Railway railhead at Ludlow, California, through Death Valley and Amargosa Valley, terminating at the mining towns of Tonopah and Goldfield in the Great Basin Desert in Nye County, Nevada. The railroad was listed as a common carrier, however it was built by Francis Marion Smith the "Borax King" and his Pacific Coast Borax Company primarily to transport borax to processing and market. The Roundhouse in Carson City had a machine shop in the basement where these train parts were fabricated. Wood models were used for the metal parts.

City: Carson City
State: Nevada,
Date: c.1905-06

FHWAC#: 26043