Three Cheers for Requa!

by Keith Albrandt Today marks the centennial of the arrival of the Nevada Northern Railway in Ely—a transportation corridor of steel rails four-feet, eight-and-one-half inches wide—connecting the early, twentieth-century, White Pine County frontier with the transcontinental railroad system. The Nevada Northern was a key element ensuring the financial feasibility of mining, milling, and smelting the […]

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