McCloud 18 worls upgrade at Gold Hill, Nevada

McCloud 18, transplanted from Northern California, works upgrade towards Gold Hill.

V&T 29 rounds the horse shoe curve near Milepost 13.

V&T 29 exits tunnel #2 with an impressive display of smoke and steam.

Steamscape: Gold Hill. Both of the new V&T's steamers combine their muscle to haul a freight up the last mile and a half from Gold Hill to Virginia City on a chilly winter day. McCloud #18... (more)

Dear God, have mercy on me. The mountains are so high and my train is so small.

Historic Gold Hill Depot. Located only just a mile or so south of Virginia City is another relic of the Comstock mining boom: The town of Gold Hill. Unlike Virginia City, Gold Hill is jus... (more)

A tale of 7 tunnels: Tunnel #3 The reborn Virginia & Truckee Railroad puts on a display of mountain muscle as Locomotives 29 and 18 double-head a short freight past the remains of Tunnel #3... (more)

A tale of 7 tunnels: Tunnel #4. The Virginia & Truckee's Locomotive #29 bursts out of the east portal of Tunnel #4 with a freight headed for Virginia City.

Known as the "Yellow Jacket ... (more)

Steamscape: The Overman Pit. A V&T Freight, en route to Virginia City, Crosses the high fill on the edge of the Overman Pit, just after dawn on a cold winter morning.

Although the scene ... (more)

Historic Gold Hill Depot. The V&T Train from Mound House pulls away from the historic Gold Hill Depot, bound for Virginia City, roughly a mile and a half to the north. In the late 1800s an... (more)

California Log Hog. The new Virginia & Truckee Railway's afternoon dead-head from Mound House to Virginia City charges off the fill around the Overman pit, on a late summer afternoon. The ... (more)

Steamscape: Overman Pit. A V&T Passenger Train crosses the spectacular fill at Overman Pit en route to Virginia City, barely 30 minutes before alpine sunset. When a Nevada State Commission ... (more)

Steamscape: Gold Hill, Nevada. Here's a 2012 look at the historic mining town of Gold Hill, Nevada. Located barely a mile south of Virginia City, this town was a mecca of mining and miner... (more)

Steamscape - Crown Point. The scene you are looking at is perhaps one of the least attractive, yet most historic on the V&T's Virginia City Line. It is the location of two structures that w... (more)