Death Valley Railroad

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DVRR locomotive at the Borax Museum at Furnace Creek, Death Valley National Park.

The Death Valley Railroad was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad that operated in California's Death Valley.

It was built in 1914 by the Pacific Coast Borax Company to carry borax with the route running from Ryan, California, located just east of Death Valley National Park, to Death Valley Junction, a distance of approximately 20 miles. Regular operation of the railroad stopped in 1928. Much of the railroad ran parallel to what is today State Route 190.

The line was constructed using equipment from the Borate and Daggett Railroad including one of its engines. After this railroad ceased operations, the equipment was transferred to the United States Potash Railroad in Carlsbad, New Mexico.

A locomotive from the railroad is at the Borax Museum at Furnace Creek in Death Valley National Park.

References

Myrick, David F. (1992). Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California - The Southern Roads. University of Nevada Press. ISBN 0-87417-193-8.

Chappell, Gordon (TBA). To Death Valley by Rail: A Brief History of the Death Valley Railroad, Third Proceedings Death Valley Conference on History & Prehistory. Check date values in: |date= (help)

Palazzo, Robert P. (2011) Railroads of Death Valley Arcadia Publishing

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Fauna, flora and minerals	Amargosa springsnail Borax Chuckwalla Death Valley monkeyflower Death Valley pupfish Death Valley June beetle Devil's Hole pupfish Saratoga Springs pupfish

History	Amargosa Opera House and Hotel Badwater Death Valley Railroad Greenwater Harmony Borax Works Lake Manly (Badwater Basin) Skidoo Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Twenty-mule team

Places	Amargosa Range / River / Valley Ash Meadows NWR Badwater Basin Ballarat Beatty Black Mountains Chloride City Cottonwood Mountains Dante's View Darwin Falls Death Valley Junction Devil's Golf Course Eureka Valley / Dunes Funeral Mountains Furnace Creek Panamint City / Panamint Range / Panamint Springs / Panamint Valley Racetrack Playa Rhyolite Saline Valley Saratoga Springs Scotty's Castle Stovepipe Wells Telescope Peak Trona Ubehebe Crater Zabriskie Point

Transportation	California: SR 127 SR 178 SR 190 Trona Railway Nevada: US 95 SR 267 SR 373 SR 374

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