Paralleling Homestead Road to the right, V&T #29 heads north with a freight bound for Virginia City, NV. Just ahead is the State Route #341 overpass which spans a cut where Tunnel #5 (also known ... (more)

Virginia & Truckee No. 29 captured with a fast freight in a pan at 1/8th in Silver City, NV.

It is possible that amusement park rides such as "The Whip" of 1914 and the "Wild Mouse" of the 1960's were inspired by the V&T - a line proclaimed to be the "crookedest shortline in America". Th... (more)

Leased power at the V&T:: California native Mikado, McCloud River Railroad #18, is seen here at Gold Hill, NV, blasting through Tunnel 4 with a freight bound for Reno, NV on a beautiful Win... (more)

McCloud River No. 18 serves as motive power for a freight captured here at Scales just west of Silver City in American Flat, NV. At one time there were, in fact, scales located here used to weigh... (more)

V&T engines, first #18 and finally, #29, are brought inside the engine house at the end of a busy workday.

An early morning V&T freight led by former McCloud River #18 leads a freight north climbing the grade over a fill at the east end of Overman Pit en route to Virginia City. This massive, open-pit ... (more)

A V&T freight led by McCloud River #18 progresses north at American Flat around one of several horseshoe curves along the line. It's easy to lose your way along the the V&T, a line proclaimed to ... (more)

Gold Rush!!!

Virginia &Truckee #29 (former Longview, Portland & Northern Railway #680) leads McCloud River #18 in a double-header over a pass at Gold Hill, NV, in a race to Virginia Cit... (more)

McCloud River Railroad #18 on the V&T

Former Northern California transplant, McCloud River Railroad 2-8-2 #18 heads north having charged through Tunnel #4 with a freight bound for Virgi... (more)

V&T #29 at Tunnel #4

Former Longview, Portland & Northern Railway #680 blasts out of the east portal of Tunnel #4, also known as "The Yellow Jacket Tunnel", with a freight bound for Vi... (more)

V&T Bay-Window Caboose No. 50

Built in 1916, this Ex-Western Pacific Railroad bay-window caboose was acquired by the "new" V&T in 1977 and sees regular service on the line's tourist tra... (more)

Virginia & Truckee 2-6-0 #20 "Tahoe" 

This 2-6-0 Mogul was built in 1875 by Baldwin in Philadelphia, PA for the V&T in Nevada. The engine originally burned wood but was converted to co... (more)

Virginia & Truckee No. 25, a Baldwin 4-6-0 Ten-Wheeler, sits idling at the depot of the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City, NV next to one of the two pieces of equipment identified as Vir... (more)

V&T #29 leads a freight out of the west portal of Tunnel Number 2. The tunnel was originally constructed in 1869 and at 568', it is the longest of 6 tunnels on the V&T between Carson City and Vi... (more)