Carson City, NV: Nevada State Railroad Museum and Lincoln Highway

Turntable: (Satellite)

Virginia & Truckee Railway posted

This snapshot from the early 20th century captures the Carson City Railroad buildings in a quieter moment.

Although vegetation reclaimed parts of the yard, these locomotives remind us that the rails remained a powerful symbol of connection, industry, and progress.

Today, the legacy of those operations continues through the preservation and revitalization of historic routes. 🚂

Roger Eyrich shared

It has an armstrong turntable. According to some comments on the above post, this is not the original location of the roundhouse.

Street View, Aug 2023

CarsonRailroadMuseum

This is the oldest topo map that I could find, and the railroad is already abandoned. 

1956/58 Carson City Quad @ 62,500

An an aerial photo didn't help.

Apr 15, 1953 @ 20,000; AR2CB0000020077

Lincoln Highway

When I noticed that Google Maps also used the label Lincoln Hwy for US-50, I did some research as to how the Lincoln Highway got from US-30 at Granger Junction to US-50. See the <update> section in Lincoln Highway Overview.

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