Death Valley Junction, California Death Valley Railroad was established in 1914, it used of tracks belonging to the Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad east-southeast of Death Valley Junction to Horton. Local wired telephones were manual telephone service until the 1980s. To reach a phone in Death Valley Junction when the area was under manual service required dialing the operator and asking for "Death Valley Junction, California, Toll Station" (and the one-digit number). Placing an outbound call required lifting the receiver and waiting for an operator. The operator who answered was in Los Angeles (over 150 miles away). Death Valley Junction is now in area codes
Death Valley Days wide" with a general retail release. The fourteenth season was released on January 2, 2018. Paul Korver's company Cinelicious in Hollywood was part of the restoration of the TV series "Death Valley Days", restoring 458 half-hour film episodes. Cinelicious worked with US Borax Film Archives and Rio Tinto Group, in preserving the TV series. The 16mm, and 35 mm film of Death Valley Days was scanned at 4K resolution for film preservation on a Scanity starting in 2013. Some episodes of the series were re-run with different sponsorship under the title "The Pioneers". The restored TV series is currently broadcast