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The new initials “NC&O” inspired at
least two nicknames for the line, the
“Narrow, Crooked & Ornery” and the
“Northern California Outrage”. By that
time, Hatch resigned as president.
In 1883 Hatch began selling his
numerous real estate holdings in the
Truckee Meadows.

Sometime in 1880, Helen Hatch and
her daughter Gertrude left Reno and
relocated to Erie County, New York,
apparently separating from Andrew.
In 1886, Hatch sold his home and
surrounding land to Richard and
Elizabeth Ryland, who had just
moved to Reno from Eureka, Nevada.

Hatch then relocated to the San
Francisco Bay Area. He soon opened
an office in San Francisco at 120
Hatch’s 1889 map of Santa Cruz County Sutter Street, across the Bay from his
new home in Oakland. He performed several township surveys for the G.L.O. in 1887 and prepared the “Official Map of Santa
Cruz County” in 1889. The 1890 San
Francisco City Directory still lists his
office on Sutter Street.

The NCO Railway lived on and
eventually reached Alturas, California.
The planned extension to the Dalles on
the Columbia River never materialized.
The company constructed a new depot
on 4 Street in Reno in 1910, replacing
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an earlier wooden depot at the corner
of Plaza and Lake Streets. The
elegant structure was designed by the
prominent Nevada architect Frederick
DeLongchamps and still stands, now a
craft brewery/distillery and restaurant.
The NC&ORy locomotive machine
shop is also still standing, immediately
to the east of the depot. NC&ORy depot on 4th Street in Reno, Nevada, circa 1912

Very little remains of Galena, Nevada. The mine dumps above the townsite are still visible, but there is little else, beyond a few
scattered foundations. The Callahan Family began ranching in the area shortly after Galena’s demise. Several family members
are buried in the Callahan Cemetery there. The Galena Creek Schoolhouse, a stone one-room school, now part of Callahan
Park, survives. The stone schoolhouse was built in 1940, to replace a wooden school built around the turn of the century, at the
request of the Callahan family, since no schools then existed nearby.

The Southern Pacific Railroad purchased the NC&ORy in 1925 and converted it to standard gauge. It also rerouted the line
away from Amedee, dooming the town. The SPRR connected the line to its mainline out of Klamath Falls, Oregon. In 1917, the
Western Pacific Railroad bought the Nevada holdings of the line. It is now part of the Union Pacific Railroad’s vast rail network.

Myron Lake’s mansion, built in 1877, and relocated several times through the years, now sits on Court Street in Reno, completely
restored to its former splendor. Hatch’s Marysville Ranch ceased to exist many years ago. It is now the site of numerous
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