At the Throttle

The museum has been busy all of 2005 and we haven’t slowed down for the new year. For starters we ended the year by carrying 13,014 passengers, which makes 2005 our sixth straight year of increased passenger

Spike TV has a new “reality” TV program on called “Pro’s vs. Joe’s.” The theme of the program is ordinary folk take on the professional athletes. The short segment that I saw showed the “Joe’s” getting creamed—big

Most people think of time travel as science fiction. That it is physically impossible. That is not necessarily true. Time travel into the past is possible and one of the time portals is the Nevada Northern Railway

Completion of the Nevada Northern Railway from Ely, through Robinson Canyon, and on to Ruth in July 1907 signaled the start of mining at Copper Flat. By the following month, Bucyrus-Erie railroad steam shovels were steadily stripping

2006 promises to be a very busy year. It is our Centennial and there is a ton of work to do. Without volunteers, the museum activities would come to a screeching halt. Actually, the museum finds itself

It took less than a minute. Crash—100 years gone. Another minute, another crash—another 100 years gone. Three more minutes, three more crashes—another 300 years goes into the trash. By the end of five minutes, 500 hundred years

It is the Christmas season. We’ve been running Polar Expresses since the day after Thanksgiving. During this time, I have heard the Twelve Days of Christmas sung countless times by our passengers on the way back from

The number one question asked by visitors to the Nevada Northern Railway Museum is, “Where’s the museum?” This question is generally asked by a person who is standing between the depot and the transportation building looking puzzled.

Hanging in the East Ely Depot is a photographic show of the museum complex. I took a moment the other day to study the photographs. One of the photographs is of the machine shop. In studying the