real time web analytics
Report - - Rhyolite Ghost Town, Nevada - 03\12\08 | European and International Sites | 28DaysLater.co.uk

Report - Rhyolite Ghost Town, Nevada - 03\12\08

Hide this ad by donating or subscribing !

Raddog

...
28DL Full Member
It amazed me the amount of ghost towns there are in the US, you can spot them off the road esy enough, so there must be more that are hidden. Rhyolite was a gold mining town founded in 1904 and had a population of 10,000, the biggest town in Nevada, before the main mine was shut in 1908 and the people left. It had two rail lines at it's peak, but you'd never know today. I reckon this is only half UE but it was good to see onr of these places.

Before:

rhyoold.jpg


Now:

IMG_8401.jpg

IMG_8407.jpg

Bank with vault in the middle
IMG_8408.jpg

Jail
IMG_8411.jpg

IMG_8412.jpg

There are loads of mine entrances up in the hills, had to go see one but didn't go in any further than just into the rock.
IMG_8426.jpg

IMG_8429.jpg
 
U

u10694

Guest
Guest
Re: Rhyolite Ghost Town, Nevada - 03\12\08 - REPORT

with Raddogs permission, a few more of Rhyolite:

The bottle house, built of old beer bottles. It must be great building an extension - "just nipping down to the pub for some more bricks....."

The old guy often appears in TV programs on Rhyolite, and really acts the part.

IMG_2784.jpg


An old caboose, now marooned

IMG_2796.jpg


As Raddog said, one of the railway stations

IMG_2792.jpg


Old store

IMG_2783.jpg
 
Top