An Itala donated the chassis and power train for this rail car

E-N No. 21 was an approximately 30-foot motor car assembled by the A. Meister Sons Co. It consisted of a $1,750 Meister carbody mounted on an Itala automobile frame. The Italian auto’s 40-horsepower engine, transmission and differential were retained. The Main Street Iron Works of San Francisco fabricated the car’s power truck. Car No. 21 made its maiden voyage on the Eureka-Nevada on October 6, 1918. In 1921 the E-N added a baggage section at the rear. The car was out of service by 1930.

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Virginia & Truckee motor car No. 99 at the Carson City depot, June 6, 1938. No. 99 had a chassis and engine made by the White Motor Company of Cleveland and a handsome carbody built by the San Francisco coachbuilders Thomson-Graf-Edler.

The Virginia & Truckee’s last passenger motor car No. 99, was a 1921 White Company product with a Thomson-Graf-Edler enclosed bus-body. The two-ton car seated 22 and produced 47½ horsepower.

Built in 1921 for $8,150 as Tonopah & Goldfield Railroad No. 99, the car came to the Virginia & Truckee in 1926 with 14,000 miles on its odometer—for $3,400. Virginia & Truckee re-lettered the car, but retained its T and G number. Like the Canary, which it augmented, No. 99 operated anywhere on the Virginia & Truckee that traffic warranted. Its light weight, and a single operator made it economical to operate compared with a two-man crew on the much-larger McKeen.

 In 1932, the Virginia & Truckee converted the motor car for passenger-mail-express service. Soon in yellow-and-orange livery, No. 99 held down the Carson City to Virginia City assignment. The car racked up 80,955 miles on the Virginia & Truckee

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Virginia & Truckee motor car No. 24, a Model T Ford touring car, sits astride the rails in front of the V&T engine house in Carson City.

the No. 24, a five-seat, four-door, four-cylinder 1923 Ford Model T touring car used for track inspections. The Virginia & Truckee converted the $302 rubber-tired, green-and-yellow automobile for rail service by means of a $145 kit from the Kalamazoo Railway Supply Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Unfortunately, the car’s operating career was limited to three years. After colliding with a truck near Browns station, it was retired January 10, 1927.

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J.G. Bradley's personal 12 passengers railcar with a four-cylinder, 3 speed on a FWD truck chassis

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1935 Tennessee short rail passenger rail car

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