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** Citation: (T54): "Western Pacific Railroad Company. Eastern Division Timetable 54."
** Citation: (T54): "Western Pacific Railroad Company. Eastern Division Timetable 54."
** Citation: (Dir. 1971): "Directory of Geographic Names, Prepared by the State of Nevada, Department of Highways, Planning Survey Division, Cartographic Section.  In cooperation with U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1971."
** Citation: (Dir. 1971): "Directory of Geographic Names, Prepared by the State of Nevada, Department of Highways, Planning Survey Division, Cartographic Section.  In cooperation with U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1971."
* [[#CholonaSiding]][http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:839519 GNIS Cholona Siding]]
* [http://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:839519 GNIS Cholona Siding]]
** Citation: "U.S. Geological Survey. Geographic Names Phase I data compilation (1976-1981). 31-Dec-1981. Primarily from U.S. Geological Survey 1:24,000-scale topographic maps (or 1:25K, Puerto Rico 1:20K) and from U.S. Board on Geographic Names files. In some instances, from 1:62,500 scale or 1:250,000 scale maps."
** Citation: "U.S. Geological Survey. Geographic Names Phase I data compilation (1976-1981). 31-Dec-1981. Primarily from U.S. Geological Survey 1:24,000-scale topographic maps (or 1:25K, Puerto Rico 1:20K) and from U.S. Board on Geographic Names files. In some instances, from 1:62,500 scale or 1:250,000 scale maps."
* "[http://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:1930_D%26RGW_WP.jpg Map of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and Western Pacific Railroad]," c. 1914 shows Cholona.
* "[http://blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:1930_D%26RGW_WP.jpg Map of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and Western Pacific Railroad]," c. 1914 shows Cholona.
* Dave Basso, "[https://encrypted.google.com/books?ei=DbCUU5WNNoiWyATYt4GQDg&id=iZs8AAAAIAAJ&dq=cholona+station&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=cholona Ghosts of Humboldt region: a glimpse into Pershing County's past]," 1970. p. 15.  "Cholona is an abandoned railway town..."
* Dave Basso, "[https://encrypted.google.com/books?ei=DbCUU5WNNoiWyATYt4GQDg&id=iZs8AAAAIAAJ&dq=cholona+station&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=cholona Ghosts of Humboldt region: a glimpse into Pershing County's past]," 1970. p. 15.  "Cholona is an abandoned railway town..." possibly named for a city in French Cochin China.  Basso states that the many Chinese railroad laborers lend credence to this theory.
* Rufus Wood Leigh, "[https://encrypted.google.com/books?ei=ULKUU5GiA8G0yATW4IHgBA&id=6l4UAQAAIAAJ&dq=cholona+pershing+county&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=cholona+ Nevada place names: their origin and signifance]," Deseret News Press, 1964.  States that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholon,_Ho_Chi_Minh_City Cholon] is the name of a city in French [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochinchina Cochin-China].  Wikipedia states: "Chợ Lớn is a Chinese-influenced section of Ho Chi Minh City (former Saigon)"
* Rufus Wood Leigh, "[https://encrypted.google.com/books?ei=ULKUU5GiA8G0yATW4IHgBA&id=6l4UAQAAIAAJ&dq=cholona+pershing+county&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=cholona+ Nevada place names: their origin and signifance]," Deseret News Press, 1964.  States that [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholon,_Ho_Chi_Minh_City Cholon] is the name of a city in French [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochinchina Cochin-China].  Wikipedia states: "Chợ Lớn is a Chinese-influenced section of Ho Chi Minh City (former Saigon)"
* Nevada State Journal, Friday, July 18, 1941, Page 5,  Mrs. William Killinger of Cholona, Nev, visiting.
* Nevada State Journal, Friday, July 18, 1941, Page 5,  Mrs. William Killinger of Cholona, Nev, visiting.

Revision as of 06:37, 12 January 2016

Cholona is a railroad siding and ghost town located east of Trego in Pershing County. The 1955 Lovelock 250,000 map indicates that a section house was at Cholona.[1]

The 1914-1915 WPRR Descriptive Time Table states: "Cholona, 460 miles, is the halfway point between Salt Lake City and San Francisco. This stretch of soda and borax country is the east edge of the Black Rock Down; much of the whitish soil is said to be volcanic ash."[2]

WPRR 1910 Timetable showing Cholona
October 1913 map showing Cholona
c. 1914 map of the W.P.R.R. showing Cholona

References

  • GNIS Cholona
    • Citation: U.S. Geological Survey. Geographic Names Post Phase I Map Revisions. Various editions. 01-Jan-2000.
  • Helen S. Carlson, Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary," p. 77. "Name of uncertain meaning"
    • Citation: (T54): "Western Pacific Railroad Company. Eastern Division Timetable 54."
    • Citation: (Dir. 1971): "Directory of Geographic Names, Prepared by the State of Nevada, Department of Highways, Planning Survey Division, Cartographic Section. In cooperation with U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration, 1971."
  • GNIS Cholona Siding]
    • Citation: "U.S. Geological Survey. Geographic Names Phase I data compilation (1976-1981). 31-Dec-1981. Primarily from U.S. Geological Survey 1:24,000-scale topographic maps (or 1:25K, Puerto Rico 1:20K) and from U.S. Board on Geographic Names files. In some instances, from 1:62,500 scale or 1:250,000 scale maps."
  • "Map of the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and Western Pacific Railroad," c. 1914 shows Cholona.
  • Dave Basso, "Ghosts of Humboldt region: a glimpse into Pershing County's past," 1970. p. 15. "Cholona is an abandoned railway town..." possibly named for a city in French Cochin China. Basso states that the many Chinese railroad laborers lend credence to this theory.
  • Rufus Wood Leigh, "Nevada place names: their origin and signifance," Deseret News Press, 1964. States that Cholon is the name of a city in French Cochin-China. Wikipedia states: "Chợ Lớn is a Chinese-influenced section of Ho Chi Minh City (former Saigon)"
  • Nevada State Journal, Friday, July 18, 1941, Page 5, Mrs. William Killinger of Cholona, Nev, visiting.
  • Reno Evening Gazette, Monday, August 10, 1914, Page 8, "a Greek sectjon foreman on the Western Pacific line at Cholona, near Sulphur"
  • "Four Injured in Collision on Railroad," Reno Evening Gazette, Thursday, April 28, 1910, Page 3. Head-on train collision during a sandstorm between Cholona and "Hot Springs" (presumably Trego).
    • J. F. Gallagher, brakeman, of Winnemucca injured
    • Bert Dyer, engineer
    • Adolph Becker of Winnemucca, hit on the head, expected to die
    • Engineer Baker