Author name: @maslow

The kids are barely back in school and we have had our first frost. The railroad is now turning its thoughts to winter. This winter there are four opportunities to photograph the Nevada Northern Railway. The four shoots are different in scope; in other words, we are offering something for everyone. The first opportunity is […]

It looms over the entire complex and I dare say it was the largest pigeon coop in Ely. I’m talking about the coaling tower. It could be called our signature piece except for the fact the original depot is right across the tracks from the coaling tower and the water tower loams over the coaling

There is one barometer that I use to see if the railroad is doing its job, and that is how shiny are the rails? I’m glad to report that we have kept the rails very shiny. It is tricky to keep those rails shiny. It takes the dedication of a small army of volunteers supported

Labor Day weekend in Ely, Nevada is dedicated to Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, a celebration of getting there from here. The activities start on Saturday, September 4th at 9:30 a.m. when the Ghost Train of Old Ely, powered by steam locomotive 93, heads up the track. This is an eighteen mile round trip to Ruth

Well it has already happened, we have already received the first requests for the 2005 schedule. I know I shouldn’t be surprised but I am. Here we are in the mist of our busiest season ever and people want to know when the trains will run next year. So lets put a kettle on the

It is amazing to me at least how history repeats itself. We all get comfortable in believing that something is new. It was never been done before, we’re the first. Then after little research you usually find out, what you thought was new, had already been done before. I mention this because the museum is,

There is an old expression, “You can’t see the forest because all of those trees are in the way.” To a certain extent, we all suffer from this affliction. We get so involved with our day-to-day activities we overlook the joy of what we are really doing. Sometimes it takes an outsider to remind us

When you think of the Nevada Northern Railway Museum most people equate it with the passenger excursions that we offer. We advertise ourselves as the best-preserved rail facility left in America. And there is another group of individuals who come to Ely not to ride the train but to photograph equipment and the buildings and

In previous columns I have discussed the reachable past of the Nevada Northern Railway Museum. There is a piece of that past that I would like to share with you. In the machine shop mounted on the wall is a circular addressed to ALL EMPLOYES. At first glance there is nothing special about that circular

I was standing in front of the East Ely Depot on Sunday morning and it had already been a hectic morning. I had just come off a caboose hop with a film location crew. It was 10:55 a.m. and locomotive 109 had just arrived back to East Ely with the caboose. The morning started with