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The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad (reporting mark T&T) was a former class II railroad that served eastern California and southwestern Nevada. The railroad was built mainly to haul borax from Francis Marion Smith's Pacific Coast Borax Company mines located just east of Death Valley, but it also hauled lead, clay, feldspar, passengers and general goods across the desert to a connection with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad at Ludlow, California, and to the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad (later Union Pacific Railroad) at Crucero, California.

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  • La Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad era una ferrovia adibita principalmente a trasporto merci che si estendeva per circa 338 km attraversando il deserto del Mojave. La ferrovia fu costruita da , soprannominato il "re del borace", e dalla sua compagnia la con l'obbiettivo primario di trasportare il borace estratto dalle miniere ma anche per il trasporto di altri minerali tra cui l'oro. Partendo dalla stazione di della Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway attraversava la valle della Morte e la Amargosa Valley terminando nelle cittadine minerarie di Tonopah e Goldfield, nella contea di Nye, in Nevada. Non raggiunse tuttavia mai Tidewater nel sud della California limitandosi all'interscambio con la Union Pacific a e con la Santa Fe a Ludlow. I lavori di costruzione ebbero inizio il 30 luglio del 1905 e il suo armamento con rotaie da 50 e 65 libbre/m cominciò il 19 novembre. Il completamento dei lavori avvenne alla fine di ottobre del 1907 una volta raggiunta Gold Center in Nevada. Da qui la T&T poteva raggiungere Beatty, in Nevada mediante un accordo per utilizzare il tracciato della . Il calo della richiesta di minerale attorno agli anni trenta provocò la dismissione di alcune tratte. Nel 1940 l'intera linea era fuori servizio. L'abbandono della concessione venne formalizzato ufficialmente il 3 dicembre del 1946. Le località servita dalla ferrovia erano Gold Center, Ashton e Leeland (in Nevada) e Jenifer, Scranton, Bradford, Death Valley Junction, Evelyn, Gerstley, Shoshone, Zabriskie, Tecopa, Acme, Sperry, Dumont, Valjean, Riggs, Silver Lake, Baker, Soda, Resor, Crucero, Mesquite, Broadwell e Ludlow (in California). (it)
  • The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad (reporting mark T&T) was a former class II railroad that served eastern California and southwestern Nevada. The railroad was built mainly to haul borax from Francis Marion Smith's Pacific Coast Borax Company mines located just east of Death Valley, but it also hauled lead, clay, feldspar, passengers and general goods across the desert to a connection with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad at Ludlow, California, and to the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad (later Union Pacific Railroad) at Crucero, California. The railroad was originally intended to run from Tonopah, Nevada to San Diego, California (the "tidewater"), but never made it to either on its own rails. It was famous for being the last of the three railroads built to cross the Death Valley region, and outlasting them by over 30 years providing dedicated and reliable service to the desert residents. The T&T also formed part of a potential north-south transcontinental railroad route, connected together by four different US railway companies, later used as the basis to potentially form a Mid-Pacific Railroad. The railroad operated from 1907 until 1940, when it suspended operations due to a lack of profitable traffic. The rails were taken up in 1943 for use in World War II and the company itself was officially abandoned by 1946. (en)
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  • The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad (reporting mark T&T) was a former class II railroad that served eastern California and southwestern Nevada. The railroad was built mainly to haul borax from Francis Marion Smith's Pacific Coast Borax Company mines located just east of Death Valley, but it also hauled lead, clay, feldspar, passengers and general goods across the desert to a connection with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad at Ludlow, California, and to the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad (later Union Pacific Railroad) at Crucero, California. (en)
  • La Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad era una ferrovia adibita principalmente a trasporto merci che si estendeva per circa 338 km attraversando il deserto del Mojave. La ferrovia fu costruita da , soprannominato il "re del borace", e dalla sua compagnia la con l'obbiettivo primario di trasportare il borace estratto dalle miniere ma anche per il trasporto di altri minerali tra cui l'oro. Non raggiunse tuttavia mai Tidewater nel sud della California limitandosi all'interscambio con la Union Pacific a e con la Santa Fe a Ludlow. (it)
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