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75 years ago in Trains: Last run for the Virginia & Truckee

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The last run of Nevada’s Virginia & Truckee was profiled in the August 195o issue of Trains. The cover of the August 1950 edition of Trains Magazine, seventy-five years ago. After 80 operating years as one of the most glamorous transport agencies of the old American West, the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, running from Reno to Carson City and Minden, Nev., closed its books on May 31 and on that day its last train rolled down a clear track into the…
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75 years ago in Trains: Last run for the Virginia & Truckee

The last run of Nevada’s Virginia & Truckee was profiled in the August 195o issue of Trains. The cover of the August 1950 edition of Trains Magazine, seventy-five years ago. After 80 operating years as one of the most glamorous transport agencies of the old American West, the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, running from Reno to Carson City and Minden, Nev., closed its books on May 31 and on that day its last train rolled down a clear track into the…

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