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Railroad History in the Mojave Preserve
In addition to the trans-desert route of the Santa Fe, ... The railroad, though not as busy as the Burlington Northern Santa Fe route to the south, ...

Kelso Depot
Stiff competition with the Santa Fe Railroad was of prime concern in this region ... The comparison of our facilities with those of the Santa Fe at Barstow, ...

Kelso Depot
Inter-railroad competition was lively, and UP was determined to put up buildings that would rival the Harvey Houses of the Santa Fe lines. ...

Ludlow, CA
About 1898 John Suter, a roadmaster for the Santa Fe, headed into the hills south of Ludlow looking for water. Instead of water, he discovered gold, . ...

Helendale, CA
The Santa Fe Railroad arrived in the 1880s and built a Point of Rocks station, which provided a watering stop for the steam engine locomotives then moving ...

History of Homesteading in the Mojave Preserve
Future residents would rent a boxcar from the Santa Fe Railway, ... When the Santa Fe abandoned its railroad line through the area in 1923, many left, ...

Stedman Ghost Town
About 1898 John Suter, a roadmaster for the Santa Fe, headed into the hills south of Ludlow ... Ecology. Mojave Valley - Granite Mountains ...

History of Victorville
It was named after Jacob Nash Victor, a construction superintendent for the California Southern Railroad (Santa Fe Railroad). The town was established as a ...

Route 66, Goffs
Goffs was a rail junction from 1893 to 1923 serving both a desert shortline and the Santa Fe mainline. In 1902 Santa Fe developed facilities and a depot was ...

Cadiz, California
Salt ...It was previously the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway line. Also at Cadiz, the Arizona & California Railroad runs over a former ATSF line to Phoenix ...

The Southern Pacific and later Santa Fe transcontinental route
However, the Santa Fe crowd was not without its own leverage, and threatening to parallel the Southern Pacific all the way to San Francisco and by other ...

The Smallest Railways
What began as one morphed into three railways north from Goffs which all became wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Santa Fe System. The first of these was the ...

Railroads of the Mojave Desert
Stiff competition with the Santa Fe Railroad was of prime concern in this . .... With the coming of the Santa Fe Railroad, water and other supplies were ...

The Salt Lake Route
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe System had worked out with an entrepreneur named Fred ... After the Santa Fe bankruptcy in the 1890s and its reorganization, ...

The Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad
... eleven miles north of Daggett on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, to which they had built a narrow gauge ore railroad known as the Borate & Daggett. ...

Copper Basin
One stimulus for mining in Copper Basin was the anticipated arrival of the Santa Fe Railroad, then working its way across Arizona. But the Santa Fe did not ...

BAGDAD AREA
The Bagdad area lies in the heart of San Bernardino County, roughly bordered on the north by Interstate 40, the east by the Parker Branch of the Santa Fe ...

History of the Eastern Mojave
A more serious blow came in 1883 when another trans-continental railroad, todays Burlington Northern/Santa Fe, was completed just south of the Mojave Road. ...

The Mojave Desert - People in the Mojave
With the coming of the Santa Fe Railroad, water and other supplies were made available to companies intent on capitalizing on the Mojave's resources. ...

Baghdad-Chase Gold Mine
About 1898 John Suter, a roadmaster for the Santa Fe, headed into the hills south of Ludlow looking for water. Instead of water, he discovered gold, ...

Rosalie - Clark Mountain - Mojave Desert Minig History
The ore was hauled by teams to Ivanpah, and shipped via the California Eastern and Santa Fe Railroads to the Needles smelter, run by Godshall. 146 ...

Mining Operations in the Whipple Mountains
They intended to walk along the Santa Fe and stop at the principal points, advertising the new gold camp by panning the ore. After arriving in Los Angeles ...

MINING IN THE OLD WOMAN MOUNTAINS
After the Parker branch of the Santa Fe was built, Price, in partnership with Bert Day, began working the mine. In March, 1911, the shaft was down to 60 ...

Railroads in the Mojave
The coming of the Santa Fe Railroad changed everything. They could haul in food and haul out ore faster and cheaper than the large wagons designed ...

Ft. Mojave Indian Tribe - Mojave Desert
Many turned to the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad (later the Santa Fe), which came to Needles in 1883. Others worked on river boats, in the mines, ...

Kramer
In July 1884, the Kramer Siding on the Santa Fe Railroad had but one inhabitant, the depot agent. However, with the discovery of copper 3 miles to the south ...

Orange Blossom Mine
John Denair, division superintendent for the Santa Fe and a resident of Needles, was president of this concern and Judge L. V. Root was secretary. ...

Borax at Death Valley
The nearby town of Newberry Springs was first choice for Santa Fe Railroad, when deciding to establish a major crossroads that would bring people and ...

MINING IN NORTHWEST SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY
In July 1884, the Kramer Siding on the Santa Fe Railroad had but one inhabitant, the depot agent. However ... Coolgardie. About May, 1900, placer gold was ...

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