Salmon Creek Railroad, Heritage railway in Fallon, Nevada, US

The Salmon Creek Railroad was a 500-foot (150 m) private narrow-gauge railway in Fallon, Nevada, built by Jim Walsh. It consisted of a locomotive shed and a short piece of track for his three Alaska-imported steam locomotives. The H.K. Porter locomotive Seward, works number 1421, was occasionally demonstrated at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson.

Jim Walsh, executive vice president of the J-V Corporation, moved to Golden Valley in 1976 and built a locomotive shed and a short piece of track in Fallon for three narrow-gauge steam locomotives he imported from Alaska to save them from scrapping. The H.K. Porter locomotive Seward, works number 1421, was built in 1892 for Berner's Bay Mining & Manufacturing Co., ran on the Salmon Creek Dam Railroad in 1912, was moved to Annex Creek in 1913 and retired in 1915. Walsh bought it in 1976 and restored it to operable condition.

The line is named after Salmon Creek in Alaska, where the locomotive Seward ran on the Salmon Creek Dam Railroad in 1912 before moving to Annex Creek in 1913. Jim Walsh, executive vice president of the J-V Corporation, imported three narrow-gauge steam locomotives from Alaska to keep them from being scrapped. The Seward was occasionally demonstrated at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson.

The line was a private collection in Fallon, not a public museum, so there is no adjoining museum to visit. The H.K. Porter locomotive Seward was only occasionally demonstrated, and that took place at the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson, not on site. Check there for demonstration dates before travelling.

The Seward locomotive was originally brought from Alaska, where it had worked in mining operations before coming to Nevada. This unexpected journey demonstrates how these machines traveled between remote mining regions to serve different industries.