Directions: Highway 50E from Fallon 101.5 miles;turn left onto dirt road (through gate) and proceed generally NE for about 1.5 miles.

From Fallon: 103 miles

What Was

Ledlie was a station on the Nevada Central Railroad. From here, cargo went out to several locations; the mines to the northwest, Ione and Grantsville, and in 1880 another line was planed to go south to Cloverdale in Nye County.

Ledlie was named after the infamous Civil War Brigidier General James H. Ledlie, whom U.S. Grant described as "... the greatest coward of the Civil War..." due to his drunken performance (or lack thereof) at Petersburg, Virginia on July 30, 1864. Instead of leading his men in battle and providing for their needs, apparently he was lolling around in his tent, drunk, which led to their being slaughtered and his being forced to resign. After the war, he returned to engineering, and was chief engineer of railways in both California and Nevada, which made it easy to get a siding named after himself.

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What is

While Paher mentions a single building still standing, we could find nothing save a single, solitary post marking the site. Fitting, perhaps.