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Nevada Central Sagebrush Narrow Gauge by Mallory Hope Ferrell w/DJ
Nevada Central Sagebrush Narrow Gauge by Mallory Hope Ferrell
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
204 Pages
Copyright 2010 1st Edition
Contents( Mixed Train Schedule)
Dedication5
Acknowledgements 6
Foreword9
Introduction 10
Chapter 1 Spurs & Silver 13
Chapter 2 Iron Rails & Silver Dreams19
Chapter 3 Rails Through The Sage23
Chapter 4 Silver Spikes At Midnight31
Chapter 5 Union Pacific Takes Over 40
Chapter 6 You Gotta Have Connections 50
Chapter 7 93 Miles of Sagebrush 70
Chapter 8 Hard Times For The Slim Gauge86
Chapter 9 Hell On Wheels104
Chapter 10 Rust And Alkali Dust118
Chapter 11 Sunset On The Narrow Gauge132
Chapter 12 Restoration And Preservation 144
Chapter 13 Nuts & Bolts: Equipment, Plans 168
Contributors201
Bibliography202
Nevada Central At A Glance203
Index 204
MAPS
Railroads of Nevada 8
Express Routes 12
Nevada Central RR30
Battle Mountain 43
Clifton (Austin) 54
Battle Mtn. & Lewis RR 65
Austin City Ry 198
PLANS
B.M.& L. "Starr Grove"63
NC #2 2-6-0 173
NC #5 4-4-0 J75
NC #1 Combine '183
NC #204 Box Car187
NC #160 Gondola/Coal191
NC #253 Box Car 193
NC #10 Caboose 194
A.C.Ry "Mules' Relief" 196
Inside dust jacket
IN THE HEART OF THE GREAT AMERICAN BASIN once ran a most unlikely and historic narrow gauge railway. Built to carry the commerce of rich silver and gold strikes, the Nevada Central Railway struggled against all odds for six decades.
It all started quite by accident when a Pony Express rider's horse kicked over a chunk of silver-laden rock in 1861. The discovery, in what is now upper Austin's Pony Canyon, started a silver rush. Mining claims were staked out and almost overnight Austin became a Wild West town and supply point in the middle of it all.
Following the Civil War, it was hoped that the builders of the Central Pacific would follow the old Pony Express and stage routes through Austin. But, the transcontinental railroad was built 90 miles north through Battle Mountain in order to avoid the Central Nevada mountain ranges. Austin and its mines needed their own rail connection. So, beginning in 1879 the Nevada Central was built in order to open up this 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 equip-ment...mainly because it could never afford to purchase anything newer.
The most amazing part of the story is that this little three foot gauge, begun in the late 1870s, not only survived so long, but that many of its original locomotives and cars lasted long enough to be preserved. Not that the Nevada Central's owners and builders had any interest in "historic preservation," it was simply that this 93-mile-long "line in the sand" never made enough money to buy more modern equipment.
Hence, the Nevada Central steamed and clanked down through the years like some lost tribe.
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