Steam & Excursion > This Engine Is Spending It's Last Days In This Enginehouse!

After 1905, Mina, Nevada was the junction point for the Southern Pacific standard gauge and narrow gauge lines along the old Carson & Colorado RR.  This status gave rise to a number of railroad facilities in this isolated small town, including a sizable dual gauge enginehouse that serviced the steam motive power of both gauges.

By July, 1937, when this photo was taken of SP narrow gauge 4-6-0 #14 inside the Mina enginehouse, the traffic between Mina and Laws, California on the narrow gauge had dropped to almost nothing.  In just a few short months, in July 1938, the very last narrow gauge train would depart Mina with 3 locomotives on the head end and all the remaining narrow gauge cars left in in Mina behind them bound for the climb over Montgomery Pass and down into Laws. 

#14 and her sister engines would never again rest inside the Mina enginehouse.

Martin



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 01/04/20 02:53 by LoggerHogger.

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Excellent image! Thank you!

Martin, 
That is a very interesting photo and discussion.  Thank you.
Elesco

The 14 wound up as a Steam Supply at Colfax.
Photo attached by an unknown photographer from my collection.
Any further help would be appreciated.

James R.(Jim) Baker
Whittier, CA

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JimBaker Wrote:

> The 14 wound up as a Steam Supply at Colfax.

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