WVRR No. 54-55

WVRR No. 54-55

Baldwin 2-8-0s built November 1906 for the Bullfrog-Goldfield Railroad. 55-inch drivers, driver wheelbase 14 feet 8 inches, total wheelbase 23 feet 5 inches. The WVRR was the rather unfortunate brainchild of John Brock, then president of the WVRR, and despite massive funding difficulties and legal wrangling, it managed to put a railroad in just in time for the larger Las Vegas & Tonopah to complete a parallel, competing route. As such, the road never stood on its own. Built by the WVRR, its engines and cars were numbered in sequence. As such, these two machines received 54 and 55, and the WVRR engines arriving the following year became WVRR 56-57. It was unfortunate for this tidy planning, then, that the WVRR was promptly realigned with the Tonopah & Tidewater, which had its own designs for the equipment. The 0-6-0s were sold, the remaining engines painted in the latest Baldwin styles and kept in pristine condition. This lasted until 1914, at which point LV&T took over, and within four years sold all of the remaining equipment. 54 and 55 were sent to the American Smelting and Refining Company, and nationalized a year later to become NdeM class G-30. They soldiered on into the 1950s, making them the longest-lasting (and most heavily rebuilt) engines from the Tonopah mining boom.

Author: Daniel Gollery

WVRR No. 54-55
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