I took my camera down to Virginia City a couple of weeks ago. There was a lot of snow on the ground, which is not unusual for this time of year, but I was still able to get a few good pictures. (Click on any picture to embiggen.)
This is Virginia & Truckee locomotive no. 18, the Dayton. She was built in the Central Pacific shops in Sacramento and delivered in 1873. From 1879 until 1938 Dayton was fitted with a snowplow. In 1939 Dayton appeared in the Cecil B. DeMille epic Union Pacific, and thirty years later she taken to Promontory Point, Utah for the Gold Spike Centennial. Her current home is at the Comstock History Center in Virginia City.
A close up of the Central Pacific builder’s plate on the Dayton.
A plaque listing the rules of the V&T railroad shops in Carson City. I notice that in 1874 this was a no smoking shop, and that employees who were more than five minutes late were docked two hours pay.
The Virginia City passenger depot is long gone, but the freight depot remains. I don’t know who owns the building, but it is badly in need of restoration.
Your certainty right the V&T freight depot in Virginia City needs restoration soon, if you ask me, I think the V&T Railroad should restore it and even own it, because they could make it there Virginia City Station because the freight depot is only a couple blocks away from the V&T Railroad, and they would take much better care of it.