Rhyolite Depot, Stone & Concrete Railroad Station
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| While most Gold-rush towns were tent cities, Rhyolite rushed to build of cut stone and concrete. The LV&T railroad main planning was to build the best depot west of Chicago. The first passenger train to Rhyolite arrived Dec. 14, 1906 with a Pullman and two coaches loaded with a hundred passengers eager to buy mining stock. Rhyolite was most proud of the freight trains that filled the 105 car capacity of the rail yard. The freight cars were loaded with goods for local merchants and lumber and supplies for the Montgomery-Shoshone mine. In the spring of 1907 there was plenty of freight for all the lines. It seemed that every time Rhyolite planned a railroad celebration that the train wound-up in Beatty. Passenger trains came from all parts of the country loaded with a gullible public ready to invest in any hole in the ground. |
