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Historic photos of mines and trains

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#1

I found a site that has a lot of great, historical photos of mines in Nevada. Here’s one from the town of Rawhide. Note how the little hotel is surrounded by mines:

Here are two shots of the Mohawk Mine in Goldfield, NV. The trains are the Tonopah Goldfield RR:

Here’s a shot of two steam-powered “Keystone Driller” rigs in action at the big copper mine near Ely, NV:

You can see the rest here: http://www.miningartifacts.org/Nevada-Mines.html

#2

Not just Nevada, but photos from all over the US.
Great site. Thanks.

http://www.miningartifacts.org/index.html

#3

Neat - Could spend a weekend there :slight_smile:

#4

Those Keystone rigs were built about 25 miles from here. My grandpap owned two of them. They drilled my mom’s well with one of them in 1974. AFAIK it was the last domestic water well drilled by steam in the state.

We still have one, only because my father got suddenly greedy AFTER selling just about everything else of Pap’s at about 1/3 it’s value…
He’s asking $8K… and the only folks interested want him to donate it to their museum…

#5

I love that “Nevada Hotel” in Rawhide ! :slight_smile:

#6

I wonder how stable that hotel was as they built tunnels under it!

That’s a great website. I will be spending a lot of time there. Thanks!

#7

Probably as stable as downtown Scranton or Wilkes-Barre is…

#8

Bob;

I grew up in Palmyra, PA. No mining, but lots of limestone quarries. The bedrock under the town was also limestone - so - sinkholes were all too common. A local car dealership would always park the junkers on a certain corner of their lot, because that’s where the sinkhole would occasionally open again - and again! If the dealer lost some junkers - no biggie. Also, the junkers helped as “fill” for the sinkhole.

Best,
David Meashey

#9

And all of this before the !@!WQ$#$RQ#% EPA!
Love it.