At the Throttle

In the museum’s collection are copies of photographs showing the next to the last and the last passenger trains at Currie. These pictures document the end of an era on the Nevada Northern Railway. From 1906 through

In the museum’s collection is an autobiography of Mr. Harold Millard Peterson. Mr. Peterson worked for the Nevada Northern Railway from 1937 to 1975. He retired from the railroad as General Manager. With the Centennial of the

As I write this, the museum has already operated 101 trains so far this year and the season is just beginning. We are operating seven days a week and will be running trains daily through September. And

On June 17, 18, and 19 the Nevada Northern Railway Museum in conjunction with the East Ely Depot Museum, the White Pine Public Museum, and the White Pine Chamber of Commerce celebrates the Long Steel Rails Festival. This festival will explore

Two-hundred thousand dollars is a great deal of money until you look at the needs of the enginehouse/machine shop building. Seventy-nine thousand dollars had already been invested in the building and we had barely scratched the surface.

When you talk about the railroad museum, it is easy to get wrapped up in the trains and track. Yet a huge piece of the museum, the piece that the public sees first, is usually overlooked. Without

The weekend of April 16th and 17th was the start of another busy season on the Nevada Northern Railway Museum. Over the course of four days, there were four scheduled trains, a charter, and ten locomotive rentals.

I recently gave a tour of the museum to a tour operator who was accompanied by Ed Spear from the Bristlecone Convention Center. Now Ed was on the City Council when the railroad was given to the

Assemblyman Goicoechea and Senator Rhodes Introduce Bill for the Nevada Northern Railway Museum Assemblyman Goicoechea has introduced A.B. 424 into this session of the legislature to request $800,000 for the Nevada Northern Railway Museum. The bill is