With a mixed freight, Nevada Northern #81 approaches the yard limit at High-Line Junction

Despite it's age, Nevada Northern's rotary snow plow has actually seen very little use. The railroad bought it new in the 1910s after an incredibly bad winter. Snow levels were historic that winte... (more)

Nevada Northern #81 chugs up the grade with Ruth just around the bend.

Historically a freight engine, #81 was assigned the Steptoe Valley Flyer as it's currently the only operable locomotive on the Nevada Northern. With its green boiler jacket, it's a pretty substitu... (more)

1933 or 2023? Nevada Northern #81 hauls a mixed freight back to Ely on a snowy 2023 day.

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

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

Baldwin Locomotive works built both #801 and #81, though you couldn't tell by just looking. The two Baldwin graduates sit on display in the East Ely yard during the Winter Photoshoot weekend at th... (more)

Joining the mainline at High-line Junction, Nevada Northern #81 rolls past the switch stand with a mixed freight in tow. The switch target is meant to alert railroad crews as to the direction of t... (more)

In a brisk snow squall, Nevada Northern #81 handles a mixed freight bound for Ely, Nevada. This shot was taken as part of the Nevada Northern's annual winter steam spectacular. Spectacular does no... (more)

Having crossed Steptoe Creek the daily northbound passenger train is climbing toward Hi Line Junction. I always thought 81 was the best looking engine on the roster so after it was restored we de... (more)

It's a process. Members of the Nevada Northern Railway Museum's Engine House Crew fire up the dual, smoke-box-mounted air pumps on Baldwin Consolidation #81, as they finish up the complex r... (more)

Passing Hi Line Junction. A lonely Nevada Northern Switch Tender waves a southbound special passenger operation through the switch at Hi Line Junction (MP 135) as it continues on its journe... (more)