Arriving from downtown Ely
After retrieving several empty boxcars from a local business in downtown Ely, Nevada Northern Locomotive #40 brings her train of empties into the snowy East Ely Yard for disposition. The train is pictured passing a string of ore hoppers next to the RIP shed, with the engine house in the background. This image was captured during a February 2010 winter photo shoot at the Nevada Northern Railway Museum in Ely, NV.
The tracks of the Nevada Norther Railway used to run from the East Ely Yard to a passenger depot downtown, but that trackage was removed in the late 1930s when passenger traffic on the line was rapidly being replaced by bus service. For many years, the track which had gone downtown literally dead-ended right behind the engine house. In recent years, the present-day Nevada Northern Railway Museum has proposed rebuilding the line to downtown, and some track has been laid. It remains to be seen if that project will come to fruition.
Arriving from downtown Ely
After retrieving several empty boxcars from a local business in downtown Ely, Nevada Northern Locomotive #40 brings her train of empties into the snowy East Ely Yard for disposition. The train is pictured passing a string of ore hoppers next to the RIP shed, with the engine house in the background. This image was captured during a February 2010 winter photo shoot at the Nevada Northern Railway Museum in Ely, NV.
The tracks of the Nevada Norther Railway used to run from the East Ely Yard to a passenger depot downtown, but that trackage was removed in the late 1930s when passenger traffic on the line was rapidly being replaced by bus service. For many years, the track which had gone downtown literally dead-ended right behind the engine house. In recent years, the present-day Nevada Northern Railway Museum has proposed rebuilding the line to downtown, and some track has been laid. It remains to be seen if that project will come to fruition.