California Eastern Railway , is a defunct 45-mile (72 km) short-line railroad that operated from 1902 to 1911. The railroad ran from Goffs, California , to Ivanpah . It was first a private line operated by a mining company, that was acquired by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway .
6-914: A mining magnate from Denver, Isaac G. Blake, in April 1892, with an interest in the silver mines in Sagamore Canyon in the New York Mountains , built the Needles Reduction Company mill, in the town of Needles and then in December 1892 began building the Nevada Southern Railway , toward those silver mines and the gold mining town of Vanderbilt from the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) station at Goffs , completing 25 miles (40 km) to
12-479: A rail camp with a post office, named Manvel, then later built it five miles (8.0 km) on up nearer the mines and a pass through the mountains, to a rail camp named Summit which was renamed Manvel when the post office relocated there, in July 1893. Manvel renamed Barnwell was the nearest railhead for nearby mining camps, including Vanderbilt, Goodsprings and the mines at Searchlight, Nevada . In early 1902,
18-813: The Nevada Southern Railway completed a 15-mile (24 km) extension over the New York Mountains, past Vanderbilt, into the Ivanpah Valley , to a railhead named Ivanpah , to serve as the shipping point for the Copper World Mine. Several months later, the ATSF bought the Nevada Southern Railway and renamed it the California Eastern Railway. In November 1918, the Copper World Mine was shut down for
24-564: The last time and in 1921 the California Eastern Railway tore up its tracks between Ivanpah and Goffs. On December 28, 1911, the California Eastern Railway was consolidated into ATSF's non-operating subsidiary , the California, Arizona and Santa Fe Railway . New York Mountains The New York Mountains are a small mountain range found in northeastern San Bernardino County in California , USA. The range's northeastern area lies in southeastern Nevada . The range lies just south of
30-655: The northwest corner of the Piute Valley of Nevada-California. The New York Mountains are part of the southeast border of the Great Basin Divide . The Piute Wash Watershed empties eastward into the Colorado River . The New York Mountains are a southwest by northeast trending range, about 30 miles (48 km) long with the northeast in Nevada. Searchlight, Nevada and Cal-Nev-Ari, Nevada lie to
36-688: The small community of Ivanpah , and north of the Lanfair Valley . The mountains are part of the mountain ranges, cones, mountains, and landforms in the Mojave National Preserve . The mountains reach an elevation of 7,533 feet (2,296 m), and run in a mostly southwest-northeasterly direction between the Providence Mountains and the McCullough Range approximately five miles into Nevada and border
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