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V&T 1872 Locomotive No. 11 Reno Historical Photographs

  1. Pulling the Lightning Express passenger train at Carson City circa 1878. (Carleton E. Watkins photo, #2300)
  2. Preparing to leave Virginia City in 1890 with the afternoon Express passenger train for Reno. (James H. Crockwell photo, #2310)
  3. The Reno, loaded with three cords of wood, circa 1901 outside the V&T’s Carson City Enginehouse and Shops.  (#2311)
  4. The Reno at the Southern Pacific depot in Reno circa 1910…recently converted from a wood to an oil burning locomotive. (Stanley G. Palmer photo, #2318)
  5. The Reno and two cars leaving the V&T’s Carson City Passenger Depot for Virginia City in October 1931. (Otto C. Perry photo, #2202)
  6. The California-Nevada Railroad Historical Society Excursion on June 5, 1938 at Gold Hill…Robert C. Gray about to board the V-T Transit Co. bus. (Ted G. Wurm photo, #2128)
  7. The Reno on July 17, 1938, during one of its last trips to Virginia City. (Ted G. Wurm photo, #2203)
  8. Masquerading in Utah as Union Pacific R.R. No. 66 for the November 1938 filming of Cecil B. DeMille’s Union Pacific. (Paramount Pictures, #2204)
  9. No. 11 in color on September 21, 1941 at Carson City. (Al Rose photo, #2205)
  10. The Reno, being pulled by 4-6-0 No. 26, leaving the V&T for the last time on March 2, 1945, on the Lakeview Grade…having just been sold to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City, CA.  (#2206)
  11. The Reno operating for a scene in M-G-M’s 1961 epic motion picture How the West Was Won. (Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, #2207)
  12. The Reno at Promontory, Utah, on May 10, 1969, for the centennial of driving the gold spike on the first Transcontinental Railroad.  (#2208)
  13. The Reno and stunt work in November 1978 for Old Tucson Studios. (Robert C. Dockery photo, #2209)
  14. The Reno under steam in November 1978.  (Robert C. Dockery photo, #2210)

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