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line, and floated most of it across the lake by barge. As LTR&T No. 1, the former Glenbrook operated on the new railway for some 25 years, hauling trainloads of passengers between the Southern Pacif- ic at Truckee and Tahoe City, where the railway connected with the company’s famed lake steamers. Faced with increasing highway compe-


tition, the Bliss family leased the narrow gauge line for 99 years to the Southern Pacific in October 1925. The following year, the railroad was converted to stan- dard gauge and operated with regular SP locomotives and equipment. Initially set aside for preservation in


1926, the former Glenbrook was kept at Tahoe City for over a decade before be- ing sold to the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railway at Colfax, Calif., in 1937 as a source of spare parts for the sister locomotive Tahoe, which was acquired in 1900. In 1943, with the abandonment of the NCNG and word that the locomotive would be cut up for scrap, Hope Bliss (daughter of LTR&T founder Duane Bliss) repurchased the Glenbrook and donated it to the newly created Nevada State Museum, which gratefully accept- ed the old locomotive on September 11, 1943. It was shipped by rail from Colfax to Carson City in June 1943, painted red and black and put on display as the first official railroad artifact to belong to the state. Alas, Nevada wouldn’t have an official railroad museum for another 37 years.


In March 2012, restoration specialist Chris de Witt leans into the rivet gun (TOP) while Mort Dolan bucks from the inside (BELOW).


RIGHT: Chris de Witt cleans up some welds on the diminutive boiler in January 2011. Work was performed by a variety of contractors, museum employees, and volunteers.


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