As Rhyolite rose as a mining center, it was served by three railroads: the Las Vegas & Tonopah, the Tonopah & Tidewater, and the Bullfrog-Goldfield, an almost unheard-of distinction in Nevada that helped fuel expectations it would become the state's largest mining camp. The first Las Vegas & Tonopah train entered Rhyolite at 7 p.m. on December 14, 1906, with about 100 passengers, and by 1907 that line alone was hauling 50 freight cars into town each day. To handle the freight, the Las Vegas & Tonopah began building a large Mission Revival depot in September 1907 on Golden Street, constructed of concrete block on a solid concrete foundation, with separate gentlemen's and ladies' waiting rooms, a baggage room, a central ticket office, and upstairs quarters for the ticket agent. Planned to occupy an entire city block and cost about $130,000, the depot was completed in June 1908 just as Rhyolite began a slow decline, and within months more people were leaving through it than arriving. The railroad made a small profit in 1908 but lost money every year afterward until it was dismantled in 1919, when the tracks were salvaged but the depot remained because it could not be moved elsewhere. In the 1920s tourism brought a small revival to Rhyolite, and after Wes Moreland bought the depot in 1935, he operated it from 1937 as the Rhyolite Ghost Casino, with drinking and gaming downstairs and other hospitality upstairs in the former ticket agent's quarters. That venture was also short-lived, as World War II and its associated war effort, including fuel rationing, drained the area's economy. By the 1960s Moreland's sister, Mrs. Herschel Heisler, was operating the lower floor as a museum and gift shop for tourists. After passing through several owners, the depot eventually came to the Barrick Mining Company, and in October 2000 the Bureau of Land Management acquired it, along with most of the Rhyolite Townsite, in a land swap. Though a group of local citizens had replaced the historic roof with modern composite shingles before that transfer, the depot remained in relatively good condition and survives as one of Nevada's best-preserved early twentieth-century Mission Revival train depots.