On The Old Ely Main
Nevada Northern #93 (lettered NCCCo for her second owner) leads a short ore train on the original mainline through the center of Ely. This track survives for about a half mile ahead of the locomotive but is unused with the remainder through the center of town long gone. The "ore line" bypass around the north side of city built in 1907-1908 and up Robinson Canyon to the mines at Ruth is what survives today and is used by the NNRY excursion trains. That line is out of side about 1000 ft to the north on the other side of the building at left and the large roundhouse and shop complex.
They are pulling past at left what the National Register of Historic Places describes as:
"The Store House, commonly known as the Warehouse and Master Mechanic's Office, is athe 33 x 115 foot structure of masonry construction, with an east-west axis. The building is built of cast concrete blocks with a rusticated face, laid up in ashlar; the hip roof is clad in composition shingles, and its broad eaves provide weather protection. Windows are 6/6 double-hung in steel sash (though one in the east end has had the lower sash replaced by a single pane). A 10-foot wide freight platform extends along the north side of the building, with a series of freight doors giving interior access. Smaller entrance doors are located in the east and west ends of the building. The building has a partial basement that is used for additional storage.
The east end of the building contains two offices with linoleum floors and plaster walls. The storage area has a wood floor, and wooden stairs access both the basement and a loft that lines the perimeter of the warehouse.
The Store House contains maintenance records, parts blueprints dating to 1912, manufacturers' parts catalogs, parts specifications, railroad hardware in original containers, and numerous additional records, representing a wealth of research materials."
93 is a 2-8-0 Consolidation built in January 1909 (only three years after the railroad's completion) in Alco's Pittsburgh Works. Sold to Nevada Consolidated Copper Company in 1920 she passed to Kennecott's Nevada Mines Division before finally being retired and donated to the White Pine Public Museum in 1961. She was repatriated by the Nevada Northern Railway museum in 1990 in trade for the Cherry Creek Depot.
To learn more check out the caption with this post and its imbedded links: flic.kr/p/2kshNDf
Ely, Nevada
Saturday February 14, 2009
On The Old Ely Main
Nevada Northern #93 (lettered NCCCo for her second owner) leads a short ore train on the original mainline through the center of Ely. This track survives for about a half mile ahead of the locomotive but is unused with the remainder through the center of town long gone. The "ore line" bypass around the north side of city built in 1907-1908 and up Robinson Canyon to the mines at Ruth is what survives today and is used by the NNRY excursion trains. That line is out of side about 1000 ft to the north on the other side of the building at left and the large roundhouse and shop complex.
They are pulling past at left what the National Register of Historic Places describes as:
"The Store House, commonly known as the Warehouse and Master Mechanic's Office, is athe 33 x 115 foot structure of masonry construction, with an east-west axis. The building is built of cast concrete blocks with a rusticated face, laid up in ashlar; the hip roof is clad in composition shingles, and its broad eaves provide weather protection. Windows are 6/6 double-hung in steel sash (though one in the east end has had the lower sash replaced by a single pane). A 10-foot wide freight platform extends along the north side of the building, with a series of freight doors giving interior access. Smaller entrance doors are located in the east and west ends of the building. The building has a partial basement that is used for additional storage.
The east end of the building contains two offices with linoleum floors and plaster walls. The storage area has a wood floor, and wooden stairs access both the basement and a loft that lines the perimeter of the warehouse.
The Store House contains maintenance records, parts blueprints dating to 1912, manufacturers' parts catalogs, parts specifications, railroad hardware in original containers, and numerous additional records, representing a wealth of research materials."
93 is a 2-8-0 Consolidation built in January 1909 (only three years after the railroad's completion) in Alco's Pittsburgh Works. Sold to Nevada Consolidated Copper Company in 1920 she passed to Kennecott's Nevada Mines Division before finally being retired and donated to the White Pine Public Museum in 1961. She was repatriated by the Nevada Northern Railway museum in 1990 in trade for the Cherry Creek Depot.
To learn more check out the caption with this post and its imbedded links: flic.kr/p/2kshNDf
Ely, Nevada
Saturday February 14, 2009