𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰. Nevada Northern #40 is the undisputed star of... (more)

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)

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)

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)

Passengers mill about the platform, looking at the 111 year old steam locomotive that will soon pull them on a 15 mile round trip.

After a successful first fireup, Nevada Northern 81 has just had her ashpan emptied for the first time in over half a century. The humble GE 25 tonner is a fantastic shop switcher, but did have tr... (more)

Ready for her close-up as NNRY #18, a 1956 Pontiac Chieftain Station Wagon, waits for locomotive 40 to arrive at the location for the February 2020 Night Photo Shoot. For more information on NNRy ... (more)

October 17, 2020. Steam flows through the cylinders of NNRY 81 for the first time in 65 years! The pistons and running rear have not yet been installed on the locomotive so many decades of rust an... (more)