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| POTOSI Ghost Town soon to be taken over as city of Las Vegas, Nevada. |
| This is my truck parked at the Potosi train station on the train tressel.The station was to the right of my truck and there is a flat area there as well as a parcial structure made of rock and dirt. |
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| This is the remains of a home in Potosi. It is a foundation of wood, rock and chicken wire. |
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| Near the center of this picture you can see what looks like 2 roads heading up the mountain. (see arrow) This used to be a tramway that brought the ore down the side of the mountain and into the awaiting train. They had another train that ran across in front of the mines and droped ore into the tram at the upper level. Potosi was one of the only mines in the world to use this tram method to transport the ore down the mountain. I have been told that the motor used for the tram was a 1 horsepower motor. The weight of the ore helped move the bucks up and down the mountain and there fore, they only needed enough horsepower to get them moving.... The buckets also lifted the miners up to the top at the beginning of their shift and then back down at night. |
| UP-DATED 01-02-2003 |
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| Potosi, Photo taken Nov. 26, 2002; a ghost town in Nevada soon to become part of Las Vegas. And another piece of history is buried or lost to "Modern" times... |
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| This Ghost town will soon be gone forever. It is going to be the new subdivision in Las Vegas Nevada. If you want to see it, you'll have to act fast. Click here & Go to this web site for a map and pictures. |