The Locomotives of the Virginia & Truckee - The Great Western Steam Up part 3

This week we look at the locomotives of the Virginia and Truckee at the Great Western Steam Up. The Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City could be considered the Virginia and Truckee museum. While the museum certainly has many artifacts from many area railroads, the "Queen of the Short Line Railroads", the Virginia and Truckee was operated from shops only a few miles from the museum.
The Virginia & Truckee:
When first constructed starting in 1869, it was a commercial freight railroad that was originally built to serve the Comstock Lode mining area. The railroad's route ran from Reno south to the state capital and V and T shops at Carson City. From there it traveled east to Virginia City as well as to the mills east of Dayton. The section from Virginia City to Carson City was constructed beginning in 1869 to haul ore, lumber, and supplies for the Comstock Lode silver mines. The railroad was abandoned in 1950 after years of declining revenue. Much of the track was pulled up and sold, along with the remaining locomotives and cars.
As the heyday of the railroad was so early, most of the lines 27 locomotives were built between 1869 and about 1879. Later three more locomotives were built in the twentieth century, 25, 26, and 27 in 1905, 1907, and 1913 respectively.
Ten of the railroads locomotives survive, (one is a reconstruction) and seven of those were here at the Great Western Steam Up. Two are operational! Virginia & Truckee No. 22 the Inyo and Virginia & Truckee No. 25
But also present were:
A reconstruction of V and T #1, the Lyon
V and T # 11, the Reno, bought from a film studio in Tucson
V and T 12, the Genoa, on loan from the California State Railroad Museum
V and T 18, the Dayton
V and T 21, the Bowker, also on loan from the California State Railroad Museum