Caliente

Elgin Schoolhouse in Caliente, Nevada

Before the railroad, only a handful of ranchers and homesteaders lived in Meadow Valley Wash, but when the Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad (now part of the Union Pacific) was built through Meadow Valley Wash [link: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/meadow-valley-wash] in the early 1900s, the population ballooned. Not only was traditional railroading highly labor-intensive, but many workers…