Death Valley Museum

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The locomotive is from the Death Valley Railroad, long since gone.

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This old letter press interested me because my father had a similar press in our basement for many years.

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A manual ore crusher.  Ore goes in the top, the whole thing is rocked from side to side using the long handle, and a heavy roller inside does the crushing.

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An old mine locomotive.  It is driven by a gasoline engine through an infinitely variable transmission.

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