V&T Motorcar #99

V&T Motorcar #99 was a gasoline-powered car that ran on the Virginia & Truckee Railroad on light service days. Here it is parked at the Carson City V&T Depot.

Date Uploaded: November 7, 2025

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Source Caption: The V&T’s last passenger motor car No. 99, was a 1921 White Company product with a Thomson-Graf-Edler enclosed bus-body. The two-ton car seated 22 and produced 47½ horsepower. Built in 1921 for $8,150 as Tonopah & Goldfield Railroad No. 99, the car came to the V&T In 1926 with 14,000 miles on its odometer—for $3,400. V&T re-lettered the car, but retained its T&G number. Like the Canary, which it augmented, No. 99 operated anywhere on the V&T that traffic warranted. Its light weight, and a single operator made it economical to operate compared with a two-man crew on the much-larger McKeen. In 1932, the V&T converted the motor car for passenger-mail-express service. Soon in yellow-and-orange livery, No. 99 held down the Carson City to Virginia City assignment. The car racked up 80,955 miles on the V&T.

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