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Virginia & Truckee Railroad engine No. 5, circa 1940s

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Date
1940 to 1949
Description
Virginia & Truckee Railroad engine No. 5 stopped at Minden, Nevada. Minden is located in Douglas County, Nevada. The population was 3,001 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Douglas County and is adjacent to the city of Gardnerville. It was founded in 1906 by Heinrich Friedrich Dangberg Jr., who named it after the town of Minden, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which was near his father's birthplace. Minden was founded on company land of the Dangberg Home Ranch and Dangberg commissioned most of the town's early buildings. Minden has had a post office since 1906. U.S. Highway 395 runs through Minden. It is also the terminus of State Route 88, which becomes California State Route 88 on the west side of the state line.
Digital ID
pho017867
Physical Identifier
0245_0053
Permalink
http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d14t6f66m
Details
Subject
Railroad stations
Railroad cars
Cabooses (Railroads)
Place
Minden
Resource Type
Still Image
Material Type
photographs
Source
Train on the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, Minden, Nevada, 1949 August 04
Citation

pho017867. Anita Freeman Photograph Collection on Southern Nevada. PH-00245. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada. http://n2t.net/ark:/62930/d14t6f66m.

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Digital Provenance
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Extent
2848 x 2288 pixels
4.747 x 3.813 inches
19,549,552 bytes
Language

English

Publisher
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Libraries
Format
image/tiff