Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Museum

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Amargosa, Death Valley Junction, CA 92328

The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad was a former class II railroad that ran within the locale of eastern California and southwestern Nevada.It was built to mainly haul borax for Francis Marion Smith's Pacific Coast Borax Company from mines located just east of Death Valley, but it also hauled lead, clay, feldspar, passengers and general goods across the desert to the connection with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad at Ludlow, California, and to the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad at Crucero, California. The railroad was originally intended to run from Tonopah, Nevada, to the tidewater at San Diego, California, but never made it to either on its own rails. It was famous for being the last of the three railroads built to cross the Death Valley region, and outlasting them by over 30 years providing dedicated and reliable service to the desert residents. The T&T also formed part of a potential north-south transcontinental railroad route, connected together by four different US railway companies, later used as the basis to potentially form a Mid-Pacific Railroad.The railroad operated from 1907 till 1940, when it suspended operations due to a lack of profitable traffic. The rails were taken up in 1943 for use in World War II and the company itself was officially abandoned by 1946.
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Death Valley Junction & The Amargosa Hotel

Way off the beaten path, North of the town of Baker, out in the Mojave desert, close to Death Valley, is the town of Death Valley Junction, and the Amargosa Hotel!

~Join us as we walk the historic grounds~

Built by the Pacific Coast Borax Co. between 1923 - 1925, this company town housed a small store, a 23 room hotel, dining hall, and recreation hall for the companies workers. It was supplied by the Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad until 1942. From 1948 until 1967 the town was in decline, until Marta Becket found it because of a flat tire. She stayed the rest of her life and danced at the opera house she restored and loved.

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Death Valley Junction - Death Valley, California, United States

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Death Valley Junction
Once a tent town, now a ghost town, Death Valley Junction was established with the laying down of the Tonopah and Tidewater line.
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Travel blogs from Death Valley Junction:
- ... We took the 190 towards Death Valley Junction - it's a cracking road, must have only been resurfaced recently ...
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- Death Valley National Park, California, United States
- Death Valley, California, United States

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- Death Valley Junction heading to Las Vegas! by Nikandads2008 from a blog titled Oven baked in Death Valley at 50 degrees...aaah!!
- Kone v pusti pri Death Valley Junction by Mozi from a blog titled Zakvitnute Udolie Smrti
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Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad Depot Rhyolite Nevada

The Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad Depot in the historic old mining district of Rhyolite Nevada between Death Valley National Park and Beatty Nevada

Death Valley Railroad at Laws Railroad Museum, Bishop CA

The restored Death Valley Railroad is operating at Laws Railroad Museum

03/25/2014 Tonopah Tidewater Railroad Museum

The Tonopah Tidewater Railroad Museum in Amargosa is holding an open house for the public to attend.

Driving through Beatty, Nevada

Beatty (pronounced BAY-dee) is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) along the Amargosa River in Nye County in the U.S. state of Nevada. U.S. Route 95 runs through the CDP, which lies between Tonopah, about 90 miles (140 km) to the north, and Las Vegas, about 120 miles (190 km) to the southeast. State Route 374 connects Beatty to Death Valley National Park, about 8 miles (13 km) to the west.

Before the arrival of non-indigenous people in the 19th century, the region was home to groups of Western Shoshone. Established in 1905, the community was named after Montillus (Montillion) Murray Old Man Beatty, who settled on a ranch in the Oasis Valley in 1896 and became Beatty's first postmaster. With the arrival of the Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad in 1905, the CDP became a railway center for the Bullfrog Mining District, including mining towns such as nearby Rhyolite.[2] Starting in the 1940s, Nellis Air Force Base and other federal installations contributed to the town's economy as did tourism related to Death Valley National Park and the rise of Las Vegas as an entertainment center.

Beatty is home to the Beatty Museum and Historical Society and to businesses catering to tourist travel. The ghost town of Rhyolite and the Goldwell Open Air Museum (a sculpture park), are both about 4 miles (6 km) to the west, and Yucca Mountain and the Nevada Test Site are about 18 miles (29 km) to the east.

The Great Desert Railroad Race

In 1905 two millionaires raced their railroads to get to the Death Valley gold fields. William Andrews Clark and Francis Marion Borax Smith. It was a rivalry that lasted forty years. The copper king and the borax king built railroad lines through America's harshest desert and into the Death Valley country. The competition was fierce and the results fascinating. The entire DVD is available at goldcreekfilms.com

Directed by Ted Faye

DeathValleyRailroadRace

Why Ludlow Matters: A Presentation By Professor Zeese Papanikolas

Why Ludlow Matters was the keynote presentation by Professor Zeese Papanikolas at the 100th commemoration of the Ludlow massacre in Colorado called Revisiting Ludlow: 1914/2014 at California State University Of San Francisco on October 3, 2014. The conference was sponsored by the Center For Modern Greek Studies, CSUSF and the Labor Archives and Research Center.
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Amargosa Opera House