By Dick Dreiling What we currently refer to as the Nevada-California-Oregon Railway (NCO) was, in fact, a very confused, many-named,…
Historical Notes
By Dick Dreiling Self-taught aviator Eugene Ely made the first aircraft take off from a ship. Not to belittle the…
They called him “Honest John Sparks,” according to a Nevada Historical Society report. He was governor of Nevada and the…
At the turn of the nineteenth century, after the Southern Pacific Railroad (SP) realigned their tracks, the new alignment was…