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Last Monday the White Pine Legislative Coalition hit Carson City and the Nevada State Assembly Ways and Means Committee. Through the support of Mt Wheeler Power and the White Pine County School District, close to fifty residents were able to make the trip to Carson City. By 8:00 a.m., the entire contingent was seated in […]

Have you ever seen an uncut diamond? It looks like a piece of glass that was weathered. It’s milky in appearance and gives absolutely no hint of the fire and brilliance within. This fire and brilliance must be coaxed out of the uncut gem by a skilled diamond cutter. This is one of those jobs

It was 100 degrees, very unusual weather for the high desert of Nevada. When people think of Nevada, they think Las Vegas and hot summer temperatures. But that’s not Ely, Nevada the home of the Nevada Northern Railway Museum. Our high normally tops out at 85, maybe 90 degrees in the summer. People from Las

We are planning something new for 2003, work weekends. These are weekends devoted to cleaning up and preserving the museum property. The idea here is to expand from the tradition of just operating trains; but to actually preserve and maintain the property. There are three work weekends planned for 2003 to carry out the 2003

This past Friday afternoon, the museum hosted the 4th Annual Nevada Northern Railway Photo Shoot weekend and it was a smashing success. Photographers came from across the country to photograph Locomotive 93 with an authentic ore train and caboose. We had photographers from New Jersey to California descending on Ely in the middle of winter to photograph

The importance of the preservation of the Nevada Northern Railway relies on its completeness. There are railway museums scattered around the world. The vast majority of them are a collection of railroad equipment that really has nothing to do with the area where the equipment now is located. Sometimes the equipment is not even relevant

At their December 17 board meeting, the management board of the Foundation voted to form the Great Basin Railroad. This is just the first step on a long road whose final destination is the restoration of freight service between the rail connection with the Union Pacific Railroad and Ely. First some history, construction on the Nevada

A little after 3:00 p.m. last Sunday the fire was dropped from Locomotive 93 and she was put away for the season. And what a season it was, from traveling to Utah for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games to traveling to the North Pole to visit with Santa Claus, 93 was a well traveled locomotive!