A station on the Southern Pacific Railroad
Falais is a railroad station on the line of the central Pacific. The name is probably a corruption of Falaise, which in France is the name of a town situated on a rocky precipice.
-1911-1912 Biennial Report of the Nevada Historical Society, Issue 3
Accidents happen.
ASIATIC CARGO ON ITS WAY EAST
Train of 20 Cars Passes Through Consigned to New York Under Seal
Accident is Lucky
What might have developed into a serious derailment was luckily avoided Wednesday near Falais when train No. 2 passed over a break beam which had dropped from a freight train preceding it, and fell in the center of the track. As it was the steam and air connections of one of the coaches were broken so that the car had to be taken out and attached to the rear of the train.
1908 January 17 -Nevada State Journal
Unfortunately, not an uncommon occurrence. He most likely now rests at the Potters field at the Hazen cemetary.
L. B. Mason, the Hazen justice of the peace visited Fallon Saturday. He brought with him findings of the coroner's jury, which passed Friday upon the cause of death of an unfortunate who was cut in twain by a Southern Pacific freight train on the 12th at a point between Massey and Fillets in the northern part of the county. Deceased was aged 25 years and in his passing he must be recorded as being among the unidentified who shuffle off this mortal coil, no means of identification being at hand for the coroner's jury. He had a slip of paper from a meat market in Ogden addressed to a shop in Winnemucca, whither It was presumed he had set out to work. It is claimed that in passing Winnemucca, he had determined to come to Fallon and that he was bound here when his accident occurred.
-Fallon Standard, February 18, 1914
Some stations were no longer needed with the coming of diesel locomotives, and Falais was one of them.
SEEK TO ABANDON RAILROAD SIDING
Abandonment of its siding and non-agency station at Falais in northwestern Churchill County has been requested by the Southern pacific Co. in an application filed with the Nevada Public Service Commission.
1956 January 4, Reno Evening Gazette
Sandy roads- we'd suggest 4WD as a precaution. There's not a lot here- if you didn't know where to stop, you'd sail right by.