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T&T RR Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad the Nevada Short Line by Phil Serpico w/DJ
T&T RR Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad the Nevada Short Line by Phil Serpico
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
296 pages
Copyright 2013
CONTENTS
Foreword and Acknowledgements7
1. Smith, Borax & Friends9
Coleman Borax Empire10
Borax in Death Valley10
Pacific Coast Borax Company (PCB)13
Borax Consolidated, Ltd. (BCL)15
Borate & Daggett Railroad Co15
Searles Lake Borax Operations24
2. The Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad27
The Early Years - Reaching for Death Valley 27
Formation of the Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad29
Building from Las Vegas29
"The Game is Afoot."32
T&T Construction Begins...and then halted36
Borax Smith turns to the Santa Fe42
T&T: A New Beginning43
Conquering the Amargosa54
Competing Railroads to the Bullfrog District59
T&T Construction Continues to Completion64
Silver Lake, a Miner's Outpost94
Tecopa and Its Railroad103
Fairbanks and Shoshone109
T&T Sells the Bullfrog Goldfield112
Return of the Bullfrog120
The Bullfrog's Last Croak122
The Irreversible Red - Business as Usual124
The Move to Crucero134
The Last Days...and Abandonment139
The Final Farewell of the T&T145
Stations Along the Route153
3. A Tale of Two Ryans197
Lila C. Mine 197
The Death Valley Railroad Co204
Large Borax Strike at Boron224
Death Valley Tourism228
Demise of the Death Valley Railroad243
Appendix250
The Ludlow & Southern Railway250
Color Photo Gallery258
T&T 1907 Completion of Line Circular No.45273
Death Valley View Hotel276
List of Operational Employees on T&T 278
T&T and DVRR Locomotive Rosters280
T&T Car Roster282
Bibliography 286
Index289
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
WITH MORE THAN 470 B&W ILLUSTRATIONS, 20 MAPS - 60 COLOR IMAGES, COMPREHENSIVE STATION NAME, LOCOMOTIVE & ROLLING STOCK, ROSTER - BIBLIOGRAPHY - INDEX
Since the 1880s and into the 1920s, a new mineral discovery assumed center stage in the mining industry of the Mojave Desert and Death Valley regions. One that has produced greater profits than seen during and after the great California gold rush of the mid-1800s. Found in both isolated crusty dry lake beds and high above in hillside deposits, borax has been mined and refined into various products and marketed worldwide. The transportation of this ore from mine to mill to market has evolved over the decades from mule teams to steam tractors to railroads.
This is a story about the Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad which, in its operating lifetime (1907-1940), actually hauled a vast array of products in addition to borax. It was the vision and tenacity of its founder Francis Marion Smith, better known as the Borax King, which made this desert icon a reality.
Also read on about the productive mines of Ryan (both sites) nestled in the Greenwater Range in Death Valley, and the narrow gauge Death Valley Railroad which hauled carloads of borax to the processing mill at Death Valley Junction, and a connection with the T&T for points beyond.
Borax remains as a valuable commodity, but the railroad is long gone; just another chapter in man's quest to settle the West and reach for that elusive treasure beyond the next horizon.
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