Tonopah & Goldfield Railroad
BONNIE CLARE Watering Station
Half way between Las Vegas and Tonopah
This is the first station displayed on the subject Telephone Area Map
LAST TRAIN TO RUN OVER THE BULLFROG GOLDFIELD LINE
JANUARY 7TH, 1928
image from Horace Allen Collection
Bullfrog & Goldfield's #12 pulling the Alkalai Express, stopping at Bonnie Clare's
two story station. The siding track would hold unneeded cars from the up train,
rather than haul them over the steep grade to Goldfield.
image from Winslow/Hendricks Collection
| Bonnie Claire was founded in 1904 as "Thorp" and changed to this name two years later. In 1907 it had a population of 100. It was a Railroad Center, had Gold Milling and later Lead Smelting. Bonnie Claire was a stop on the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad which was a short-lived Railroad .Supplies to build Scotty's Castle were trucked from the Depot to the Castle site. In fact, the last delivery this train would ever make would be construction supplies for Scotty's Castle in 1920s, the tracks literally torn up and scrapped after this last delivery and the ties taken to the Castle to be used for fire wood. Lippincott Smelter smelted lead ore from Lippincott mine 1935-1953 |
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