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Inventory of the Carson and Colorado Railway, 1887-1916
MS 80
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Title: Carson and Colorado Railway,
Date (inclusive): 1887-1916
Collection number: MS 80
Creator:
Carson and Colorado Railway
Extent: 2 boxes
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library
Sacramento, California 95814
Shelf location: Big Four Building or off-site storage. Please contact
the Library in advance of your visit.
Language:
English.
Grahame H. Hardy Collection and Various Donors
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[Identification of item], Carson and Colorado Railway, MS 80, California State Railroad Museum Library, Sacramento, California.
This collection has been divided into three series: Train Registers, Forms, and Miscellaneous
The Carson and Colorado Railway was incorporated February 27, 1892, and in July and August, 1892, it acquired: the Carson
and Colorado Railroad Company, which operated 157.60 miles of main line from Mound House to Candelaria Nevada, the Carson
and Colorado Railroad, Second Division, operating 33.50 miles from Filben over Mt. Montgomery Pass to the Nevada-California
line, and the Carson and Colorado Railroad, Third Division, which operated 108 miles from the Nevada-California line to Keeler,
California. On March 1, 1900, the Carson and Colorado Railway came under the control of the Southern Pacific Company and on
May 11, 1905, it was sold to the Nevada and California Railway.