Silver City Dawn. In the sandy hills above the mining town of Silver City, the Virginia & Truckee's Consolidation #29 chugs slowly up the grade toward Gold Hill at sunrise. Although not native to the line, Locomotive 29 definitely shares the profile of the last of the original V&T Engines. The 29 was acquired from a line in Oregon by the new V&T back in the 1970s, when owner Robert Gray rebuilt the section of track from Virginia City to Gold Hill. She was numbered VT 29, continuing the sequence of numbers from the orginal V&T, which stopped at 27. And yes, before you ask, the former Dardanelle & Russellville #8 served the rebuilt line briefly in the 70s before the 29 arrived and was numbered VT 28 at the time. A Lerro Productions Photo Charter.
A continuously growing album of photos that IMHO reveal the awesome and seldom-seen beauty of the railroad world from the dimming of day to dawn's early light! From dusk to dawn, trains roll on! (I'm still finding gems of sunset-to-sunrise surprises!)
