WASHINGTON — The Surface Transportation Board today instituted a proceeding to consider a proposal by Nevada Gold Rail to construct approximately 55.7 miles of rail line in Eureka and Lander Counties, ...
ELY (KTNV) — Railroads helped build Nevada in the 1800s. Las Vegas was originally a water stop for steam engines between Southern California and Salt Lake City. In northern Nevada -- not far from ...
Few book projects have remained as relevant over the years as David Myrick’s splendid three-volume series, “Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California.” The first two volumes were originally released ...
BOULDER CITY (FOX5) — The Nevada State Railroad Museum in Boulder City has sold out its Christmas train rides for the second consecutive year, capping nearly a quarter-century of holiday excursions ...
LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — Las Vegas found itself growing out of luck and good circumstances. Union Pacific finished construction of its new Los Angeles to Salt Lake City route in 1905. The halfway point ...
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — A new visitor's center could soon be coming to the Nevada Railroad Museum Boulder City. That's after state lawmakers passed the Capitol Improvement Bill. That bill provided over $23 ...
Nevada Northern Railway Museum chugs along, transporting visitors to century-old railroad history One of the things Mark Bassett noticed on his first visit to the Nevada Northern Railway Museum some ...
CARSON CITY — Wendell Huffman recalls the first time he saw the old train passenger car he considers one of the most significant artifacts in American railroad history. Known as Coach 17, it was ...
A feat as worthy as man walking on the moon 50 years ago came almost one century before that monumental achievement when East met West. On May 10, 1869, a golden spike driven into the connecting ...
CARSON CITY — A railroad museum in Carson City is facing expensive flood damage repairs. Mud and puddles remain almost a month after water hit the Nevada State Railroad Museum, reported the Nevada ...
On nighttime excursions in dark-sky hot spots like Norway, New Zealand and Nevada, all you have to do is relax and look up.