UP 4014 Big Boy overnights in Caliente, NV

Nevada Northern 2-8-0 No. 93 and a short ore train steams past the snow-covered cliffs south of Adverse, Nevada, on a crisp February 8, 2004, during one of NNRy’s winter photography specials.

UP 6074 leads an eastbound manifest as it is about to go under Interstate 15 and into the small community called Dry Lake.

Snow is falling as Nevada Northern Alco RS3 No. 109 pulls a ballast train through Tunnel 1 west of Ely, Nevada, on February 7, 2004. No. 109 was built in November 1950 by American Locomotive Compa... (more)

On a quiet February 7, 2005, morning, a lonely crossbuck guards a rarely-used grade crossing on the Nevada Northern Railway at East Ely, Nevada.

The Biggest Little City in the World. Amtrak Train 6 (California Zephyr) heads through the trench in Reno, Nevada on the afternoon of July 26, 2020. Webb Rail's former Northern Pacific Rail... (more)

RS-3 #109 and RS-2 #105 pass by the water and coal towers in East Ely yard with a train of empty ore cars.

NNRY archivist Con T. works on the front of locomotive 81 during one of our night photo shoots.

Nevada Northern 93 digs in as she crosses Steptoe Fill against a cloudy morning sky.

Steamscape: American Flat Tunnel (Tunnel #2). V&T Locomotive #29 charges out of the west portal of Tunnel #2, near Silver City, NV, hauling freight loads for customers in Virginia City, abo... (more)

Steamscape: Collapsed Tunnel #3. On a clear, February day, V&T Consolidation #29 takes her short freight up the hill toward Virginia City, passing the remains of Tunnel #3, once known as "H... (more)

Steamscape: Crown Point. A V&T freight comes off the Crown Point Fill and is just now passing the ore loading facilities at about MP 50.0. This is one of the flatter stretches of the recon... (more)

Tunnel #4: The "Yellow Jacket" Tunnel. The Engineer on V&T Locomotive #29 has his engine nicely hooked up as he tugs a freight consist out of the East Portal of Tunnel #4 and up t... (more)

Crossing Crown Point Fill. The reconstructed V&T Virginia City Line pretty much follows the original, historic right-of-way, with a couple of notable exceptions. The first is at the south... (more)

Lotsa curves. In the pretty morning sun, V&T Locomotive #29 takes a short freight up the hill from Carson City to Virginia City, by about the most circuitous route you could imagine. Nickn... (more)