As some other entries into Nevada Railroad History I find no record of any operating railroad as above.
Nevada and Utah. Utah and Nevada. 1906 maps.
It seems in proposals and construction etc. Nevada names were used but an operating railroad ??
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There seems to be alot of confusion over railroads with Nevada in their name. Proposals. Never built ? Maneuvers by the major railoads ? Here Utah Nevada ended up on a map but seems it never ran.
The Utah Western missed its interest payment in January 1878,
and was placed in the hands of the trustees of its bond issue, Royal M. Bassett and E. F. Bishop, on April 16.
The trustees brought about a sale of the property under foreclosure on November 3, 1880,
for $36,000. The buyers, Bassett and W. W. Riter,
organized the Utah & Nevada Railroad on February 16, 1881, intending to extend the line to Tintic.
Before any extension could be undertaken, the Union Pacific on April 1, 1881,
purchased 600 of the 700 bonds of the Utah Western and converted them into stock of the new corporation, gaining control on August 20. The UP,
which was thought to be interested in the railroad as an exit from Salt Lake City for a line of its own to the San Francisco Bay Area rival to the Central Pacific, actually made no immediate change in the narrow gauge.
The line remained an independently operated subsidiary until August 1, 1889,
when it was merged with other UP subsidiaries in the area into the Oregon Short Line & Utah Northern Railway, which in turn became the Oregon Short Line in 1897.
A spur of 2.5 miles was built to Saltair in 1888. A major resort was built there in 1893.
The narrow gauge was converted by the OSL November 8-15, 1902. Actually,
the UP made use of only three or four miles of the old right-of-way, otherwise building a new parallel railroad.
The Saltair line was abandoned at the time of conversion.
The UP made use of the line as the northern 37 miles of its San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad,
the extension of its main line into Los Angeles.
As such, the line remains a major part of the American railroad system.
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