Amboy Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
ghost town in San Bernardino County, California, United States
About Amboy
Amboyis a ghost town located in south centralSan Bernardino Countyalong Route 66 and the BNSF Railway line betweenKingman, Arizona andBarstow, California. It has a population of five (2000); what remains of the town is owned by a private preservationist. First settled in 1858, the town was established in 1883. It was founded by the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad as one of a so-called "alphabetical series" of railway outposts in the steam locomotive era–but trains no longer stop, not even to deliver water to this tiny desert point. Back in the day, railroad lines from several companies catered to mining interests–from gold and other ores in the nearby hills, to borax from Death Valley and Beatty, Nevada–carrying bulk product to Amboy and the long-distance lines of the (then) Santa Fe Railway
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