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| Caleinte, Nevada depot |
A small little town in the Eastern portion of Southern Nevada along US-93, (the last time I have driven through the town was back in 1994). This trip was very enlightening, I learned from their representative at the train museum (not to be mistaken with the Nevada's official railroad society museums) that the town has done several changes, "...for good or bad...;" which he seemed to end most of his conversations with when speaking of the town. The fire department is all volunteers and they only had one station, which was located on the wrong side of the train tracks; it prevented them from crossing the tracks if there was a train passing through or stopped on the tracks, so they built a second (larger) station on the main highway to serve the majority of the community. The old section, as I would call it, is on the side of the train depot, which Amtrak no longer stops at. The depot has become a city building hosting the City's Office and Library besides some other offices, the train museum is a converted boxcar with very few, but valuable information of the town and a caboose attached to it (currently closed until renovation). You can find a True Value store and a Sinclair gas station.
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| Caliente VFD Station 1 (same side as depot) |
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