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plaque № 48885

Ely, NV, United States

Nevada Northern Railway. Mark Requa’s Nevada Consolidated Copper Company laid 150-mile of track from Cobre, on the Southern Pacific line, to Ely in 1905-06 to haul ore from the Copper Flat mines west of Ely.Ore was loaded into railroad gondolas at Copper Flat for the trip to the smelter at McGill, o

ver a double-track trestle that was 1720 feet long. The trestle burned in 1922 and was replaced with an earth-fill span.Passenger service and the “school train” carrying McGill youth to Ely High Schoo

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