The Borate and Daggett Railroad was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge railroad built to carry borax in the Mojave Desert. The railroad ran about 11 miles (18 km)...
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transportation. The Borate and Daggett Railroad was built in 1898 to take over the duty of hauling borax from the mules. Daggett became quite a big city...
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Twenty-mule team (category Borates)
they worked from 1891 until 1898 when they were replaced by the Borate and Daggett Railroad. The wagons were among the largest ever pulled by draft animals...
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at the time. Equipment and Heisler locomotive #2 "Francis" from the Pacific Coast Borax Company's old Borate and Daggett Railroad were used to build the...
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constructing the Borate and Daggett Railroad to link the nearby borax mines of Borate to the standard-gauge railway at Daggett, and were short on locomotives...
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years after his retirement, in 1936. Twenty Mule Team Borax Borate and Daggett Railroad Trona Railway Category: Death Valley Biography, nps.gov. Accessed...
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Francis Marion Smith (category Borates)
Pacific Railroad was done again by the 20 mule teams, but were retired as soon as Smith completed the 12-mile (19 km) long Borate and Daggett Railroad. When...
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Outer Harbor Dock and Wharf Company Pacific Coast Borax Company (Borate and Daggett Railroad) Pacific Lumber Company Pacific Portland Cement Company Parr-Richmond...
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Peaks Calico Print—publication Local history Borate and Daggett Railroad ( site ) Waterloo Mining Railroad ( site ) Francis Marion Smith ( mining ) Related...
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Pacific Coast Borax Company (category Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad)
Railroad. As Death Valley mining ran down, Smith developed new mines in the Calico Mountains near Yermo, California, and built the Borate and Daggett...
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Company and operated the largest borax mine in the world at Borate, located 11 miles (18 km) north of Daggett, California, with the Borate and Daggett Railroad...
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Laws, California (category Railroad museums in California)
Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad Carson and Colorado Railway Death Valley Railroad Borate and Daggett Railroad Waterloo...
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gauge railroad networks in the US were based in California, Colorado, and Hawaii. These narrow-gauge lines were easier to build than standard gauge and cost...
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Line Railway (originating from the Borate and Daggett Railroad) and was named "Francis." When the logging railroad was closed in 1925, it was not reported...
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Nevada Short Line Railway (category Defunct Nevada railroads)
was a 2-truck Heisler locomotive built in 1899 for the Borate and Daggett Railroad and was acquired by the NSL in 1916. It was sold to the Terry Lumber...
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discovery of the borate mineral colemanite in the Calico mountains a few years after the settlement of the town also helped Calico's fortunes, and in 1890 the...
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