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Wagons full of Borax and a Water Tank would be pulled by "20 mule teams" 162 miles across the Mojave Desert to the nearest railhead at Kelso, 160 miles distant
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The Train Station at the Rhyolite ghost town. Trains stopped coming to Rhyolite by 1915 but the station was used as a casino in the 1930’s. It’s boarded up now, and protected by a chain- link fence.
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Zabriskie Point - The ant-size people in the lower center/right of the photo indicate the scale of this formation