Greetings family, friends and train buddies! Today's railroad postcard pictures the "Glenbrook", a locomotive with a rich historical background at Carson City, Virginia City, Truckee and Lake Tahoe...All Aboard! Bill
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RAILROAD POSTCARDS OF THE PAST
LOCOMOTIVE GLENBROOK
Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1875. Hauled by oxen from Carson City, Nevada where it was used in sawmill operations. Logs milled at Glenwood provided lumber for Virginia City mines.
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Visitor’s to the Nevada Museum in Carson City between 1943 and 1982 and the Nevada State Railroad Museum during the following thirty three years will recognize the familiar “Glenbrook” locomotive. Carson and Tahoe Lumber and Fluming Company’s 2-6-0 narrow gauge Mogul type steam locomotive once hauled lumber harvested from Glenbrook on the shore of Lake Tahoe to the top of Spooner Summit where it was flumed from the crest of the Carson Range to Carson City. The cordwood for boilers and mining timbers were then transferred to Virginia and Truckee flat cars and pulled to their final destination of Virginia City on rugged Mt. Davidson. When the region was logged out in 1899 the Bliss family moved the entire railroad to Tahoe City where they constructed a 22 mile long right of way, Lake Tahoe Railway & Transportation, connecting freight and passengers with the Southern Pacific Railroad in Truckee with Lake Tahoe and the steamboat SS Tahoe. The Glenbrook changed ownership several times before ultimately being presented to the Nevada State Museum.
Circa 1950’s postcard from the collection of Bill Ralph
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