Nevada Central Turntable

The Nevada Central Turntable is a key resource associated with a small line that served Austin and Lander County, Nevada. The Nevada Central was completed in 1880 to link silver mines in the Austin area with the Central Pacific line at Battle Mountain. The turntable was a part of a depot complex that formed the line's southern terminus. The Nevada Central provided Austin with its principal economic link to the outside world until the line was abandoned in 1938.