An eastbound Z train is descending Antelope Hill on the former Western Pacific. A crew change at Winnemucca is about 45 miles away.

Just a few yards from where the Eureka and Palisade narrow gauge railroad once ran, a UP manifest thunders across the Humboldt River.

Nevada Northern 109 has just been fired up for some switching, and the 244-D prime mover is trying to warm up in the 20 degree air.

Call for the wrecking crew. With a derailment reported on the High Line to McGill, Nevada Northern's wreck train heads north out of Ely, across the Steptoe Fill to deal with the aftermath. ... (more)

A black stallion out for a winter trot. On a cold February morning, the Nevada Northern Railway's high-stepping 10-wheeler #40 charges through the East Ely Yard with her cylinder cocks open... (more)

Since I can’t get out and chase trains much in my new home of Rochester, MN right now (Covid-19 you know!), I have been spending a lot of time combing my files of past railfan trips. And guess w... (more)

KCC #93 exits the enginehouse on a clear, cold February morning. Note #40 on the left is hot and waiting its turn. #93 is now lettered for Kennecott Copper Company (KCC) but over the years I've sh... (more)

From the final morning of last winter's Nevada Northern winter photo shoot. It's early morning on the high desert, the enginehouse doors have been opened, temperatures are frosty and the show is ... (more)

From the 2020 Nevada Northern Winter shoot - Nevada Northern #40 posing by the restored "wig-wag" crossing signal, with the NN's newly restored 1956 Pontiac "hy-rail" car. We started shooting at ... (more)

Nevada Northern #93 (here lettered for Nevada Consolidated Copper Company) has left the East Ely yard and is headed out on the spur that once lead to downtown Ely. This spur is the former mainlin... (more)

From the Nevada Northern Winter photo shoot in February of 2009, here is #93 (then lettered for Nevada Consolidated Copper Company) as it passes one of the water plugs in the East Ely yard with a ... (more)

The Nevada Northern's yard in East Ely is essentially a stub off the main line as a result of a realignment done in the early years intended to bypass downtown Ely. As a consequence, trains leavi... (more)

The biggest and smallest diesels on the railroad make quite a pair. The 204 has just had a 92-day inspection completed, and is ready for a bath. The 25 ton GE is used as a shop switcher and makes ... (more)

The city of Elko was born a railroad town. The Central Pacific and Western Pacific both laid tracks through the heart of downtown, but in the 1980s the tracks were moved outside of town. Luckily a... (more)

She's alive. Nevada Northern 81 is all steamed up for the send off of number 40. When I visited the Nevada Northern for the first time in the summer of 2006, I never dreamed. That this little engi... (more)