More than 100 years ago, steam engines pulled long trains across the forbidding Mojave Desert, stopping for water at spots like tiny Kelso, Calif., about 90 miles south of Las Vegas. Clustered around ...

What is your favorite offbeat spot in California? Drawn to the historical and remote, I long have fancied Kelso Depot. Ninety-five miles southwest of Las Vegas, the depot has a solitudinous sparkle as ...

After driving dozens of miles of remote desert road through the 1.6 million-acre Mojave National Preserve, Californians are often quite surprised when they come upon the Kelso Depot. Here is a ...

Our December return to Southern California’s Mojave National Preserve offered the opportunity to revisit Kelso Depot, the beautifully restored 1924 Union Pacific rail station that now serves as the ...

KELSO, Calif. — In the middle of the Mojave Desert, the red tile roof, brick plazas and elegant stone arches of a palatial California Mission-style building appear like a mirage beside three towering ...

More than 70 years ago, the Kelso Depot was the social hot spot for lonely miners and train workers eking out a living in the desolate Mojave Desert. In the depot basement, they played pool or read F.

Reporting from Barstow — With a horn blast and a whoosh of air brakes, a special train carrying 254 rail fans, civic leaders and adventure seekers rolled out of Barstow on Sunday morning with a goal ...

The Kelso Train Depot will celebrate its 100th anniversary Saturday with cake, historical photos and a model train display. A model train layout from the Longview, Kelso & Rainier Model Railroad Club ...

I read that Kelso was a ghost town. I like ghost towns — though I have never met a ghost and, as I’ve mentioned before, the jury is still out for me as it relates to their purported existence. Be that ...

In addition to a visitors center and museum, the building contains a small gift shop that sells, among other things, a copy of the “California Gold” episode in which host Huell Howser visits Kelso ...