DEPOTS OF THE
CARSON & COLORADO RAILROAD

The Carson & Colorado Railroad was incorporated on May 10, 1880.  The C&C was built to three-foot gauge, and ran from Mound House, NV, to Keeler, CA.  In March of 1900, the Southern Pacific Railroad purchased the Carson & Colorado Railroad.  In October of 1904, work began to standard gauge the line from Mound House to Tonopah Junction, NV.  The portion from Mound House to Fort Churchill became the Mound House branch, and the portion from Fort Churchill to Mina became the Mina branch. This was completed on September 1, 1905.  From that date forward, the section from Mina to Tonopah Junction was both standard gauge and narrow guage.  South from Tonapah Junction, the track was narrow gauge to Keeler.  The track from Tonapah Junction to Benton was abandoned in 1938.  The track from Benton to Laws was abandoned in 1943.  The final portion from Laws to Keeler was abandoned in April 1960.

Sources:  
Carson & Colorado Railroad by John F. Due
Jawbone: Sunset on the Lone Pine by Phil Serpico
The Slim Princess: The Story of the Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge by John B. Hungerford
The Slim Princess Revisted at Sundown by Single Shot Gallery
Slim Rails through the Sand by George Turner               
Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge by Mallory Hope Ferrell                           
                -SPNG- email group

C&C station list from Time Table No. 15, as of Monday, October 15th, 1883 at 8:30 (as reprinted by Hungerford)

Station - a named place on a railroad.
Depot - a building with an office manned by an agent for the purpose of dealing with freight and/or passengers

Information in parenthesis is the name of the book and the page number for a photograph of the depot. 

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This page is part of David Coscia's SP site
January 20, 2007

Depot Name	State	Built Builder	W x L	Destroyed	Information
Mound House	NV	1876 V&T	.	.	1st, C&C and V&T shared depot
Mound House	NV	1881 C&C	.	.	2nd, C&C built its own depot. (Probably this one, SPNG p. 34)
Mound House freight	NV	1876 V&T	.	.	.
Dayton	NV	1881 C&C	20 x 50	standing, now a private residence at the stoplight on Highway 50	(SPNG p. 36)
Fort Churchill	NV	1881 C&C	16 x 32	.	.
Wabuska	NV	1881 C&C	20 x 40	destroyed in 1906	1st, former V&T depot at Huffaker, NV
Wabuska	NV	1906 SP	24 x 80	moved to Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City	2nd, Mina branch only
Shurz	NV	1905 C&C	20 x 44	ca. 1950's	C&C had no depot here.  C&C depot at Sodaville moved here by SP for Mina branch. (Slim Rails p. 98)
Thorne	NV	1906 SP	16 x 51	.	C&C had no station by this name.  Since Hawthorne was left off the line, this was the closest station.
Hawthorne	NV	1881 C&C	20 x 50	1905	line standard gauged: new route bypassed the town (Slim Rails p. 12)
Hawthorne freight	NV	1881 C&C	16 x 54	standing, now the Elk's Lodge	line standard gauged; new route bypassed the town
Luning	NV	1881 C&C	20 x 97	razed ca. 1997	.
Mina	NV	1906 SP	two-story 24 x 60	.	C&C had no station by this name.  The town was founded by SP in 1905 (SPNG p. 79)
Mina freight house	NV	1905 SP	40 x 100	.	moved from Sodaville (SPNG p. 76)
Soda Springs	NV	1881 C&C	20 x 44	see Sodaville	renamed Sodaville
Soda Springs freight	NV	1881 C&C		see Sodaville freight	renamed Sodaville
Sodaville	NV	1881 C&C	20 x 44	.	had a dining room
Sodaville freight	NV	1881 C&C	.	torn down, 1905	1^st
Sodaville freight	NV	Feb 1904 SP	40 x 100	moved to Mina, July 31, 1905	2nd, built to handle traffic from Tonopah silver rush
Rhodes	NV	.	.	.	telegraph office, no depot, closed ca. 1883
Tonopah Junction	NV	Feb 1904	.	.	telegraph office, no depot, connection with the Tonopah & Goldfield Railroad
Belleville	NV	1883 C&C	20 x 42	.	.
Candelaria	NV	1882 C&C	20 x 66	.	(Slim Rails p. 9)(dismantling, Slim Rails p. 37)
Mount Montgomery	NV	1896 C&C	12 x 12	.	(Slim Rails p. 20)
Mount Montgomery freight house	NV	ca. 1896 C&C	.	.	.
Summit	NV	1882	.	.	highest point on the railroad, 7138 ft
Tunnel	NV	1882	.	still exists, tunnel bore 247 feet in length	(SPNG p. 52)
Benton	CA	1886 C&C	20 x 46	.	.
Hammil	CA	ca 1883 C&C	8 x 28	.	carbody on a platform for passengers and freight
Bishop Creek	CA	1883 C&C	20 x 74	see Laws	renamed Bishop ca. 1888
Bishop	CA	ca 1888 C&C	20 x 74	see Laws	renamed Laws in April 1900
Laws	CA	1883 C&C	20 x 74	standing Laws Railroad Museum	(Jawbone p. 103)
Alvord	CA	1883 C&C	20 x 46	see Zurich	renamed Zurich in 1913
Zurich	CA	1883 C&C	20 x 46	removed after 1947	agency closed June 28, 1932 (Sim Rails p. 111)
Independence	CA	1884 C&C	20 x 46	see Kearsarge	renamed Citrus ca. 1900
Citrus	CA	1884 C&C	20 x 46	see Kearsarge	renamed Kearsarge in 1913
Kearsarge	CA	1884 C&C	20 x 46	razed December 1955	agency closed June 29, 1932 (Jawbone p. 110)
Manzanar	CA	ca. 1911 SP	10 x 10.	removed ca. 1943	passenger shed
Manzanar freight	CA	ca. 1911 SP	8 x 40?	removed ca. 1943	carbody on a platform for freight, probably a coach
Owenyo	CA	1910 SP	9 x 34	part of the second depot	C&C had no station by this name. 1st, standard gauge boxcar (Jawbone p. 27)
Owenyo	CA	1912? SP	36 x 38	standing; moved to Keeler, now the Volunteer Fire Station	2nd, added a second car and built a common roof to cover both cars (Jawbone p. 115)
Lone Pine	CA	1884 C&C	20 x 46	see Mt. Whitney	renamed Mt. Whitney ca. 1901 (Jawbone p. 115)
Mt. Whitney	CA	1884 SP	20 x 46	razed after 1911	closed ca.1911 with the opening of the Lone Pine depot on the standard gauge line (Jawbone p. 115)
Hawley	CA	1886 C&C	20 x 66	see Keeler	renamed Keeler ca. 1884
Keeler	CA	1886 C&C	20 x 112	standing, now a private residence	20 x 50 two-story living quarters added December 1917 (Jawbone p.102)