I posted a bunch of pictures yesterday of the V&T railroad bridge across the Truckee River, in downtown Reno. This bridge was first built in 1872 when the line was extended from Carson to Reno. In all, three different bridges spanned the river. First there was a wooden bridge, which can be seen at the [...]
I posted quite a few pictures yesterday of the V&T enginehouse in Reno. This single-stall enginehouse was right near the Truckee River, along the V&T mainline, and had a turntable and a water tank in the vicinity.
The enginehouse was built in the late 1800s, probably soon after the branch line to Reno was built [...]
On May 1, 1950, V&T Engine #26 finished its daily run from Reno to Carson City and Minden and back, and was eased backwards into the Reno enginehouse near the banks of the Truckee River. The crew went through their normal routine of shutting her down, and headed home to rest up for the next [...]
I added some code today to bring up a list of all the photographers featured on the site. Many of the photos come in with no information about who took them, but quite a few do have the name of the photographer listed. Now there is one handy page that lists all the photographers that [...]
I wanted to single this photo out because it’s just so great.
Fred Nietz added a bunch of really interesting photos to Flickr last week, all of them Carson history pictures. Some of them were from the 30s through 50s, but most of them were taken in the 1980s, making them an interesting study on “near history”. I wrote about this on Around Carson earlier.
So of course [...]