Come take a steam train ride here in Ely, Nv this weekend. All Trips are 90 minutes long and do include museum admission as well. Steam Trains run at the following times. Friday at 4:30pm Saturday at 1pm & 4:30pm Sunday at 9:30am Monday at 9:30am Tuesday at 9:30am Wednesday the 4th at 1pm & our Fireworks Special at 6:30pm All trains still have seats as of Thursday 6/28, but we are expecting a busy weekend so make sure to book your tickets early at http://nnry.com/n0161a | Nevada Northern Railway

7.3K views · 701 reactions | One neat thing to check out when in Ely, is the Ely Renaissance Village. A museum consisting of original mining company house set up for the different immigrant backgrounds of White Pine County. They are all volunteer run and open on weekends in the summer. | Nevada Northern Railway | Facebook

As mentioned in earlier posts, the 1:00 pm excursion train on October 28 consisted of three passenger cars, a flatcar and our caboose. Power for that train was scheduled to be Locomotive 40, a high stepping 4-6-0 steam locomotive with 69 inch drivers that turned 108 years old this past summer. Our mission here is twofold preserve our historic steam locomotives and train the next generation on how to operate a heritage railroad. Could Locomotive 40 handle the train unassisted, yes she could. But

When you visit the Nevada Northern Railway National Historic Landmark be sure to set your watch back a century. It is a complete 19th century railroad with over 60 buildings and structures, four steam locomotives, two operating, one under restoration and one waiting, eleven diesel locomotives with four in operation and one undergoing restoration. We are preserving this amazing complex in the most remote city in the continental United States. When I say remote, I mean the nearest Wal-Mart is almo

Our steam powered crane has 100-ton capacity. It was built by the Industrial Works of Bay City, Michigan in 1907 for the Nevada Northern Railway. We are going to use it to lift a Balwin VO diesel locomotive prime mover that weighs 35,000 pounds. THere are other videos on our page showing the lift. The crane is now in position, the spreader bar is on the big hook with the lift chains dangling down. As Josh says they could do it as a maypole. Every time we use the crane it's part of our training a