LIST OF NEVADA RAILROADS

==Common Carriers

Contents

Defunct

Standard Gauge

Narrow Gauge

A railroad that served one company, usually owned by that company, and was not a common carrier.

Narrow Gauge Mining

Narrow Gauge Logging

See also

References

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Current

★ Amtrak (AMTK) ''via trackage rights over UP''

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★ California Zephyr (Amtrak)

★ BNSF Railway (BNSF) ''via trackage rights over UP''

★ Union Pacific Railroad (UP)

Defunct

Standard Gauge

★ BHP Nevada Railroad (BHP) 1996 - 1999 ''former Nevada Northern Railway''

★ California, Arizona and Santa Fe Railway ''ATSF subsidiary - later ATSF''

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★ Barnwell and Searchlight Railway

★ Central Pacific Railroad (CP) ''later SP''

★ Deep Creek Railroad

★ Eagle Salt Works Railroad ''from CP''

★ Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad

★ Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad ''later UP''

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★ San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad

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★ Caliente and Pioche Railroad

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★ Utah, Nevada and California Railroad Company (of Nevada)

★ Nevada Central Railroad

★ Nevada Copper Belt Railway/Nevada Copper Belt Railroad

★ Nevada Northern Railway (NN) ''later KCCX, BHP and NNRM''

★ Nevada Railroad

★ Oregon Short Line Railroad (OSL) ''later a UP subsidiary''

★ Silver Peak Railroad

★ Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) ''later UP''

★ Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad

★ Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad

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★ Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad

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★ Goldfield Railroad

★ Virginia and Truckee Railway/Virginia and Truckee Railroad/Virginia and Truckee Rail Road (VT)

★ Western Pacific Railroad (WP) - ''later UP''

Narrow Gauge

★ Eureka and Palisade Railroad/Eureka and Palisade Railway

★ Eureka-Nevada Railway

★ Nevada-California-Oregon Railway ''later CP''

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★ Nevada and California Railroad (Reno - Amadee)

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★ Nevada and Oregon Railroad

★ Nevada and California Railway (Hazen - Mojave) ''later CP''

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★ Carson and Colorado Railroad/Carson and Colorado Railway ''VT Subsidiary''

★ Nevada Central Railroad (of 1888)

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★ Nevada Central Railway

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★ Nevada Railway

★ Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad

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★ Tonopah Railroad
==Tourist and museum railroads==
These railroads are known by several names including tourist railroad, historic railroad, museum railroad and heritage railway. These railroads also operate excursion trains.

★ Nevada Northern Railway Museum (NNRM) at Ely, Nevada

★ Nevada Southern Railway at Boulder City, Nevada

★ Nevada State Railroad Museum at Carson City, Nevada

★ Virginia and Truckee Railroad (VT) at Virginia City, Nevada
==Industrial and Private Railroads==
A railroad that served one company, usually owned by that company, and was not a common carrier.

Standard Gauge

★ Bluestone Mining & Smelting Company (mine)

★ Goldfield Consolidated Milling and Transportation Company/Goldfield Consolidated Mines Company (mine and mill)

★ Kennecott Copper Corporation (KCCX) ''later BHP Nevada Railroad''

★ Nevada Industrial Switch (NIS) ''serving Pabco Gypsum Mine 20 miles NE of Las Vegas, Nevada''

★ Pacific Portland Cement Company (quarry)

★ Prince Consolidated Mining Company (mine) ''later sold to UP''

★ Six Companies, Inc. (quarry for Hoover Dam)

★ Verdi Lumber Company (logging)

Narrow Gauge Mining

★ Austin City Railway

★ Battle Mountain and Lewis Railway (gold, silver) (had 1 passenger car)

★ Bristol Silver Mines Company (copper, lead, silver)

★ Dayton, Sutro and Carson Valley Railroad

★ Golconda and Adelaide Railroad (copper)

★ Nevada Short Line Railway

★ Pioche and Bullionville Railroad (had 1 passenger car)

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★ Central Nevada Railroad

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★ Nevada Central Railroad (of 1871)

★ Pioche Pacific Railroad/Pioche Pacific Transportation/Pioche and Pacific Transportation/Pioche Pacific Railway

★ Quartette Mining Company (gold)

★ Ruby Hill Railroad

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★ Eureka and Ruby Hill Narrow Gauge Railroad

★ Sutro Tunnel Railroad (?)

★ Yellow Pine Mining Company (copper, lead, zinc)

Narrow Gauge Logging

★ Carson and Tahoe Railroad

★ Crystal Bay Railroad

★ Lake Tahoe Narrow Gauge Railroad

★ Lake Valley Railroad

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★ Lake Valley Narrow Gauge Railroad
==Passenger, Transit, Interurban and Commuter Rail==

★ Las Vegas Monorail

See also

★ List of United States railroads

References

★ Association of American Railroads (2003), ''Railroad Service in Nevada'' (PDF). Retrieved May 11 2005.

★ Encyclopedia of Western Railroad History - The Desert States, Robertson, Donald B., , , The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1986, ISBN 0-87004-305-6