Nevada Northern 81 arrives in East Ely with Steptoe Valley Flyer as the sun begins to set behind the mountains.

Nevada Northern 81 starts its ore train through the snow at The Fill.

Nevada Northern 81 starts its long ore train down the grade at Lackawanna Crossing.

Nevada Northern 81 charges up the steep grade as it nears Lackawanna Crossing.

Nevada Northern 81 leads the Steptoe Valley Flyer through the scenic, snow-covered Steptoe Valley.

Nevada Northern 81 charges out of the Rock Cut with the Steptoe Valley Flyer on a beautiful February afternoon.

Nevada Northern 81 smokes out the engine house as the morning sun beautifully lights the locomotive.

Nevada Northern 81 steams up in the engine house early in the morning.

Trainmaster Con Trumbull poses on recently-restored Kennecott Copper Corporation 801 while Nevada Northern 81 poses to its right in East Ely.

As a light snow falls in Carlin Canyon the daylight inspired red and orange of Southern Pacific heritage locomotive #1996 adds some color to the wintery scene.

#81 steams towards the ready track on a brilliant Nevada morning

The main engine house at the Nevada Northern is only heated by the steam from warming locomotives and this coal fired stove. In the perfect encapsulation of the railroad, the stove was apparently ... (more)

Nevada Northern #81 rolls past a brilliant mountain view with the Steptoe Valley Flyer passenger train

A steam freight chuffs out of East Ely yard, while the massive Nevada Northern shop complex looks on. Scenes like this easily take a visitor back to the early 1900s.

Locomotive 81 has the Steptoe Valley Flyer at track speed as it passes a phonebooth at a passing track