Mark Bassett

In earlier articles I have mentioned the need to invest $500,000 in Locomotive 40. The question is, of course, where is this money going to come from? One funding source that we are pursuing is going to Carson City and asking the state legislature for the money. Unfortunately this is not a good year to […]

Last January, the Museum loaded Locomotive 93 and the passenger cars Ely and Nevada and moved them to Heber, Utah for the 2002 Winter Games. To accomplish this move we needed cranes and heavy trucks for the journey to Utah and back again. On December 7th & 8th, Locomotive 93 and the Ely and Nevada passenger cars will again be traveling to a

There are three major projects that the Nevada Northern Railway Museum is investigating funding sources for. The projects are the McGill Depot, the East Ely Machine Shop and Engine House Building, and of course Locomotive 40. The three projects share similar characteristics: they will cost about $500,000 apiece; they are all in need of immediate

I had the opportunity to give a presentation to the White Pine County Commissioners on Wednesday. As part of the presentation I reviewed the Museum’s experience at the Winter Games in Salt Lake City. I would like to share this Olympic Achievement with you this week. A little background on the Olympics, the venues for

Five million dollars is my estimate of what the Nevada Northern Railway Museum needs to prepare us for the next hundred years. Five million dollars will put our steam locomotives in A-1 condition; repair our passenger and freight cars; restore our buildings, upgrade the track and rebuild the track into McGill. Ambitious goals but well

Just to recap from last week the Nevada Northern Railway Museum is more than just a collection twelve locomotives, six passenger coaches, fifty freight cars, five cabooses, and thirty miles of track. We are also a National Historic District that consists of 40 acres and 49 historic buildings. We are also the last remaining standard

Hello everybody, I would like to introduce myself, I am Mark Bassett, the new Executive Director of the White Pine Historical Railroad Foundation the agency responsible for operating the Nevada Northern Railway Museum. I may be the new Executive Director but I’m not new to the Museum. For over three years I’ve been one of