The Yellow Pine Mining Company Railroad

Built in 1911, The Yellow Pine Mining Company Railroad was a twelve and a half mile long narrow gauge railroad connecting the town of Goodsprings with the Union Pacific Railroad in Jean. It was built using materials from the defunct Quarter Mine Railroad in Searchlight, Nevada. The Yellow Pine Mining District covered the area around Goodsprings and the Sandy Valley area, where the primary ores mined were zinc and lead, while other mines produced gold, silver, platinum, palladium, copper, vanadium, molybdenum, nickel, cobalt, and uranium. After several booms and busts in the district, the railroad was out of business by 1930. The rails were torn up in 1934, but the right-of-way can still be seen along the road between Jean and Goodsprings.

Goodsprings, Nevada · United States