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The Nevada Northern Railway Museum has a secret that must be exposed. Its trains are not powered by locomotives, but by the Museum’s volunteers. These dedicated individuals are what really power the trains of the Nevada Northern Railway Museum. Bluntly put, without this pool of volunteers there would be no trains running. This past summer over […]

This past week has been a week of memorials. Naturally, the biggest memorial was September 11th. But down at the railroad we had our own special memorial service. Volunteers run our trains. One of our volunteers is John Tyson, the rural reporter for KOLO-TV. This past weekend, John was the engineer on Locomotive 93. It

I came to the Museum with a few preconceived notions. One of them was that a train was a train and it didn’t matter which locomotive pulled it. I thought that the only thing our passengers were after was a train ride. In fact one of the Dads who saw diesel Locomotive 109 pulling into

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