Mark Bassett

Before the letters and phone calls start, yes I know its 2003 and that we are not 6,000 years in the future. (Do you think there will people who care enough in 8003 to keep a steam locomotive running? I do.) Be that as it may, the 8003 I refer to in the title is […]

I’m sure you have heard the term “a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation” but did you ever wonder what that phrase meant? The IRS recognizes certain corporations as a non-profit corporation, which means the entity raises money for charitable or educational projects. Individuals or companies who give money to a non-profit corporation are given a tax deduction

I was talking to Santa on last weeks Polar Express and the subject of Christmas gifts came up, imagine that. Anyway, I explained to Santa that there are two real benefits to shopping at the Nevada Northern Railway’sGift Shop this Christmas season. Santa, who has an advanced degree in gift giving from good old NPU

What do the world famous Cable Cars of San Francisco and the Nevada Northern Railway have in common? Give up? In the case of the cable cars, they are the only items on the Department of Interior’s Register of National Historic Landmarks that travel on rail. In the Nevada Northern Railway’s case, we may be

There are three winter opportunities to photograph the Nevada Northern Railway this winter. The scope of the three shoots are different, in other words we are offering something for everyone. The first opportunity is scheduled for the mornings of December 6th and 7th with a night shoot on December 6th. The coordinators of this shoot

It is that time of the year again, the days are getting shorter, the weather is definitely colder, we have snow on the ground, and the Nevada Northern shop crew is preparing steam Locomotive 93 for some very special annual trips. What trips? Why, they are the most special trips of the year. On November

I fear I must get on my high horse again and crow about just how unique and precious our museum is. It is definitely a national treasure. I mentioned a few weeks ago how I found the original 1908 plans for the ash pit. Now I found a copy of Mark Requa’s 1906 speech that

I was speaking with a visitor to the museum the other day and he asked a simple question: what projects are we working on? Then I started to rattle off all of the projects that we have going on and what we have accomplished in the past year. The three critical projects are the Engine

Thanks to Mark Twain, an adopted son of Nevada, the Nevada Northern is using his guidance in the preservation of this historic property. Tom Sawyer has nothing on us; we out Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer, and we do it week after week as the following story attests to. But before we get to Doug’s story,

For the past couple of weeks, I had a notice at the bottom of this column asking whether anyone knew what the old ash pit looked like. Seemed like a simple question, but its answer actually has major ramifications. Let me start at the beginning. Steam engines burn coal. This coal turns into ash and