Carson City Depot

Center for the Study of Los Angeles Research Collection, Loyola Marymount University

The Virginia & Truckee Railroad Depot on Carson Street in Carson City. A carriage from the Park Hotel is waiting out front to carry passengers. The Park Hotel was formerly known as the Ormsby House.

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Source: Center for the Study of Los Angeles Research Collection, Loyola Marymount University

Source URL: https://digitalcollections.lmu.edu/Documents/Detail/carson-city-nevada.-railroad-station/9295

Source Caption: Description
Railroad station at Carson City Nevada. Railroad personnel, most likely those of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad Company, along walls of station. Carriages waiting at station for passengers. The two-wheeled carriage in the center is from the Park Hotel. Telephone lines overhead. Inscription on front of photograph: "THE DEPOT CARSON, NEV. PHOTO CO. 172." Title supplied by cataloger.
Note
The Virginia and Truckee Railroad Company was incorporated in 1868 and began construction of a line from Virginia City, Nevada, to Carson City, Nevada, in 1869. The line was fully functioning in 1870 and served the great silver mines of the Sierra Nevada, such as the Comstock, near Virginia City. In the early 1870s some 80 to 100 carloads of ore from mines in the areas of Virginia City; Minden, Nevada; and Washoe Lake were being sent daily to Carson City for smelting. The line was eventually expanded to Reno, Nevada, in 1872. The station here at Carson City served as the main offices of the railroad company. The Owens Valley was closely related culturally and even economically to the mining towns of western Nevada that the railroad serviced.

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