Mississippi Rails
An excellent collection of Google Earth KMZ files of railroads
An excellent collection of Google Earth KMZ files of railroads
Boyleston to West Superior WI: Built by Eastern Ry Co of Minnesota 1888, sold to Great Northern Ry 7-1-1907
Dedham WI to Boyleston WI: Built by Eastern Ry Co of Minnesota 1888, to Great Northern Ry 7-1-1907
Hinckley MN to Dedham WI Built by Eastern Ry Co of Minnesota 1888, to Great Northern Ry 7-1-1907
Mora Jct to Hinckley MN: Built by Minneapolis & St. Cloud RR 1882, to St. Paul Minneapolis & Manitoba Ry 4-23-1883, to Great Northern Ry 11-1-1907
Leatham, Jeremy. “‘I Promise the Public No Amusement’: ” Mark Twain Journal, vol. 54, no. 1, Alan Gribben, 2016
Carson City Station (N39 09 42.3 W119 46 10.8)
The fifth and final division of the Pony Express National Historic Trail ran from Roberts Creek, Nevada, through the Sierra Nevada Mountains to Sacramento, California, and then either by rider or steamer to San Francisco, California. This chapter discusses forty-nine stations along the route, as well as events, personal accounts, locations, and plaques/monuments associated with them. This division of the trail contained the largest number of stations.
From Salt Lake City, Utah, the Pony Express National Historic Trail headed southwest and then west into the Great Basin and Range toward Roberts Creek, Nevada, crossing many desert valleys and medium mountain ranges in between. Division Four of the Pony Express route encompassed thirty stations, eighteen of them in western Utah and the remaining twelve stations in eastern Nevada. The following chapter contains available historical data on each station, including present-day location of ruins, buildings, and commemorative markers.
Located 10 miles from Horseshoe Pony Express Station and 15 miles from LaBonta Station; the old Emigrant Road crosses Elkhorn Creek just north of the station site. http://www.expeditionutah.com/featured-trails/pony-express-trail/wyoming-pony-express-stations/
Frontz's/South Platte Station site is one of two stations within Colorado and was presumably two miles east of present Julesburg, in Sedgwick County. Sources generally agree on its identity as a station, known either as Frontz's or South Platte. A marker improperly identifies the site as Butte Station, which Merrill Mattes lists as a separate ranch known as Butt's or Burt's. Little more is known about this Pony Express station. (NPS)