May 2023 underground Chollar Mine Tour. Chris and I visit Virginia City and go underground. The tour leads you back 400 feet into a hoisting station above a 250' winze. This winze allegedly meets the top of one of the Comstock stopes. This stuff near the surface would be the oldest at around 160 years. Everything has collapsed. I can only imagine the huge stopes below but probably completely collapsed. This mine has quite a bit of equipment spread around outside. Looks like a collection from a few different areas. Their maps are displayed inside shed and they are quite good. While we were there the steam locomotive from Carson City showed up with three large antique Pullman coaches. That's the Virginia & Truckee Railroad and they had two steam engines running this day.