Early morning preparations are underway in the engine house as the Nevada Northern crew gets #81 steamed up for the day.
Wild wild west! Tumbleweed, barbed wire, and a passenger train in the distance. The California Zephyr is racing east to its next station stop of Winnemucca where it will return to home rails of th... (more)
Nevada Northern 81 sits just outside the engine house in Ely as her crew begins preparations for the afternoon run.
With the sun only a few minutes from dropping below the horizon, Amtrak's California Zephyr hurries east across the Great Basin Desert with retro phase IV colors leading the charge.
Returning from Battle Mountain, Union Pacific's 'AM' paired track local is Elko bound behind a pair of NLR rebuilds on main track 2, the former Western Pacific mainline. Here at the heart of Palis... (more)
Over 16K tons of manifest freight burdens the 5 road jacks (note the two 'swings' across the way) tasked with delivering the tonnage to Roseville on the 1% grade that will soon be achieved at Sand... (more)
The Wabuska Turn cruises along the Truckee River on the 1902 line re-location that routed Espee's Overland Route away from Wadsworth, altering 80 miles of the original route between Vista and Brow... (more)
The two Nevada Northern Railway steamers #40 and #93 are resting outside the Ely loco shed.
Nevada Northern 81 rests in Ely with the Steptoe Valley Flyer on a beautiful February afternoon.
Nevada Northern 81 reverses passed the RIP Building on a cold February morning.
Some small talk at Up's Las Vegas yard, showing the impressive DD40X. Pretty bad weather this day.
Amtrak 164 has recently debuted in "Phase IV" colors, replacing 184 as the Phase IV heritage unit. I was lucky enough to capture 164 on its very first assignment in the new colors, which was the C... (more)
Low sunlight catches a UP manifest freight in Oak Well Hollow.
From this vantage, Tunnel 14 appears almost to be a horseshoe curve as an eastbound stack train negotiates the serpentine canyon.
V&T #25 pulls the Nevada State RR Museum's Santa Train out of the depot at Carson City.
