One very unique spot. In all of the roughly 150 miles of ROW on the Nevada Northern Railway, there is probably only one spot where you can photograph a train coming through a grove of trees....and you're looking at it right here. At the south end of the NN Yard in East Ely, there's a branch of track that used to run all the way into downtown Ely. It no longer goes quite that far, but on the way out of the yard, it does pass between two very large trees, providing a scene like no other on this desert railroad. In this shot, the line's rotary plow train emerges from the "woods" as it runs just far enough south to clear a switch, allowing it to back onto the main. Among the small group of us who watched this operation, none could ever remember photographing an NN train in vegetation any larger than sagebrush.
