Hour-long meal stops. Large food courts in towns. Serving Buffalo steaks, tea, antelope chops, sweet potatoes, boiled Indian corn. Chicken stew, Prarie Dog stew. The Pullman car Delmonico had a 5-star restaurant on-board. Smoking, reading, music, lounging cars. High elegance for the super-rich. 1868
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Eureka & Palisade RR
The E&P was completed in 1875 serving the booming mining camps of Mineral Hill, Eureka and Hamilton. Millions of dollars in ore were shipped north to Palisade and transferred to the mainline, returning with machinery and supplies for the town and mines, declining mining addend Eureka in the late 1800’s started the fall of the […]
Railroad Industry
Virginia and Truckee Railroad The Virginia and Truckee Railroad is one of the most famous short lines in American history. It was incorporated on March 5, 1868 by the “Bank Crowd” to serve the mines of the Comstock. A railroad was deemed necessary because of the high cost of freighting goods by wagon into and […]
