Nevada Central Railroad Company records
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Title: Nevada Central Railroad Company records
Dates: 1882-1937
Collection Number: MS 683
Creator/Collector:
Nevada Central Railroad Company Records
Extent: 1 half- box + 1 oversize folder
Repository:
California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Sacramento, California 95814
Abstract: Miscellaneous records from the Nevada Central Railroad Company.
Language of Material: English
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Nevada Central Railroad Company records. California State Railroad Museum Library and Archives
Gift of Guy L. Dunscomb, 1988
Biography/Administrative History
The Nevada Central Railroad was a narrow gauge railroad, completed in 1880 between Battle Mountain and Austin, Nevada to connect
Austin, the center of a rich silver mining area, with the Central Pacific at Battle Mountain. However, by the time that
the line was finished, the boom was almost over. Major silver production ended by 1887, although there was a slight revival
later. By the middle 1930s most of the mines were closed. The Nevada Central Railroad passed into receivership for the last
time in 1938.
Scope and Content of Collection
Records include: bad order car notices, financial records relating to fuel, materials and supplies, misecellanous expenses
and revenues; correspondence with the U.S. Post Office Department; interline passenger traffic ticket sales report forms;
Interstate Commerce Commission valuation reports for accounts 44: Shop machinery, 51: Steam locomotives and 53: Freight train
cars.
Arranged in alphabetical order by subject.