You ought to try working out there...spent a year in Caliente, NV one week.
(Pioche Branch, where it leaves the UP Transcon at Caliente ended in 1984 and had to be all kinds of no fun and misery... There were a bunch of short lived narrow gauge operations up there as well)
After checking a map, truly a railroad to nowhere.
All that money to get there. No apparent reason to build beyond and make another connection with the existing rail network.
WASHINGTON — The resurrection of a controversial plan to store nuclear waste under Nevada’s Yucca Mountain could also mean a revival for a proposed rail line to the remote site. In late March, the Trump Administration announced it would...
http://trn.trains.com/news/news-wire/2017/04/05-trumps-plan-to-store-nuclear-waste-in-nevada-could-revive-proposed-yucca-mountain-route
Brian Schmidt, Editor, Classic Trains magazine
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