TrainsTalk: Virginia & Truckee is back from the dead, and it’s awesome:
The odds of reconstructing a long-abandoned but legendary railroad from scratch are long, even in a gambling state like Nevada. But odds makers could have never foreseen the myriad funding that came together to rebuild a good chunk of the Virginia & Truckee branch between the state capital of Carson City and the mining town of Virginia City, where Mark Twain once ran the Territorial Enterprise newspaper.
