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Reno is the shire chair of Washoe County, Nevada, United States. Reno sits in a high desert valley at the base of the Sierra Nevada.
Renowned as "The large-scale Little City in the World", Reno is well known for its casinos and is the birthplace of the gaming company Harrah's amusement. The Reno–Sparks metropolitan locality is unofficially called the Truckee Meadows and comprises of almost 500,000 inhabitants.
Trains
Reno was historic a stopover along the First Transcontinental Railroad; the modern Overland path extends to run through Reno. Reno was historic the south terminus of the Nevada–California–Oregon Railway (NCO) and the northern terminus of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad. utilising the NCO depot and right of way, the Western Pacific Railroad historically supplied rail service to Reno. Downtown Reno has two historic train depots, the inactive Nevada-California-Oregon Railroad Depot and the still hardworking Amtrak depot, originally constructed by the south Pacific trains.
Amtrak supplies every day traveller service to Reno via the California Zephyr and multiple Amtrak Thruway Motorcoaches connecting to trains going away from Sacramento.
