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Bridge on highway 580

Carson City Railroad Museum: the Glenbrook

Carson City Railroad Museum

Carson City Railroad Museum: Locomotive Glenbrook

Carson City Railroad Museum: Locomotive Glenbrook (1875, made in Philadelphia)

Carson City Railroad Museum: the Glenbrook

Carson City Railroad Museum

Carson City Railroad Museum: in 1884 Sam Huntington bought the Central Pacific Railroad that had extended toward Oregon, down the Coast, through the San Joaquin Valley to Los Angeles, and east from there to Arizona and Texas

Carson City Railroad Museum: Track-laying began at Sacramento in October 1863 and 10,000 Chinese workers were hired from China

Carson City Railroad Museum: 10,000 Chinese

Carson City Railroad Museum

Carson City Railroad Museum: made by Parry Williams in 1975 in Philadelphia

Carson City Railroad Museum

Carson City Railroad Museum: made by Kimball Carriages and Car Manufacturing in San Francisco

Carson City Railroad Museum

Carson City Railroad Museum: Risdon Iron Works in San Francisco built ore cars to transport the Comstock ore between 1869 and 1883

Carson City Railroad Museum: Comstock ore 1873-78 (the "Big Bonanza")

Carson City Railroad Museum (1913)

Carson City Railroad Museum: the Porter Company of Pittbsurgh produced more than 8,000 light-duty industrial locomotives

Carson City Railroad Museum: how to make carbon copies without carbon

Carson City Railroad Museum: made by Kimball

Carson City Railroad Museum: Baldwin Locomotives (1905)

Carson City Railroad Museum: made in Omaha (1910)

Carson City Railroad Museum: 1868

Carson City Railroad Museum

Carson City Railroad Museum: made in Omaha (1910)

Museum volunteer Bill Port demonstrating a railroad whistle

Donald Mill

Silver City

Virginia City

Highway 395