the ceremony started off with a train ride from Virginia City down to Gold Hill with the dignitaries riding in the enclosed car and the media and others in the...
The Northern Nevada Railway Foundation is accepting applications for interested parties to become a Trustee (Board Member). The applicant would have to be able...
Work is progressing rapidly on the filling in of the Overman Pit. The contract for engineering for the final leg of the reconstruction from the Pit to Carson...
What: Rails Festival Where: Virginia City, NV When: Saturday, August13, 2005 From 3PM to 9PM Activities: Train Rides on the V&T; Musical Performances; ...
Just saw the progress pictures on the AEG website; it looks really exciting! We've rode the V&T on the Virginia City-Gold Hill route several times and think...
If you go to the web site for the Northern Nevada Railway Foundation (www.steamtrain.org) there is a link to the web cam. at the moment it is focused into...
The Nevada Commission for the Reconstruction of the V&T Railway recently purchased the a 1914 2-8-2 Mikado, the #18, from the McCloud Railroad. The Northern...
What is the site that was selected? Will there be any sort of locomotive/rolling stock storage or maintenance facilities at the Carson City end of the line,...
The Nevada State Railroad Museum offered to store the #18 inside until the line was ready, but it turns out that the turntable is approx. 15-20 feet to short...
Last Thursday the Carson City Board of Supervisors unamimously passed a 1/8th of 1% sales tax increase which will be bonded upon to finance the final leg of...
The website for the civil engineers doing the work says that Phase I should be completed "by the first week of September". Phase I involves running track from...
Yes it was. The "uphill" entrance to tunnel #2 has been opened, the engineers have said that a preliminary inspection reviels that it is not in as bad a...
Do you know if they will start running trains as far as the track is completed at that time, or are they waiting to finish the route all the way to Carson...
I don't know at this time. There are discussions now on the subject. John <josta3@...> wrote:Do you know if they will start running trains as far as...
Hey people, I keep checking the messages here but no one has poasted in quite a while........Sure would love to know how construction is progressing if at...
NDOT (Nevada dept. of transportation) has "signed off" on the engineering plans for the rest of the route down to and immediately across Hwy 50 (where the...
Hi All (and especially to the Lippincotts--long time no see!), "Buddmantx" made a really good point--those of us not near the Reconstruction project are really...
Hi Dave, glad to hear from you too. I have tried to insert info on the progress of the project when there is something significant to report (Clyde and I are...
Hey Linda & Dave, Thanks for the updates and confirmations....any news is good to hear as long as things are progressing. Wish I had learned of the project...
It is with sadness that I report the passing of Kel Aikens and of Dale Darney both from cancer. The following is from the Nevada Appeal Kelman Robert Aiken Jr....
Below is the obituary for Dale Darney that appeared in the Reno Gazette Journal. Obituaries Dale Darney Long time Reno resident Dale Darney passed away at home...
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