Nevada Northern Railway Museum

[KentuckySouthern]

Interesting photos, Rick and James. 

Thanks for sharing them.

KARL

[jbvb]

Thanks, Karl.  Here are some detail photos of  NN #20, the wood/SUF RPO/baggage with the 15 foot mail apartment:



I can't say what this lamp in the baggage space burns.  Maybe kerosene, but how to advance the wick?



I didn't know steel underframe kits with cast parts existed, so no idea how common they were.  Cast-in queenposts are an extra oddity. Other steel underframes I've seen have riveted crossbearers. Not sure I could have gotten a useful shot of the truck bolsters, but if I ever return I'll try.



Print it?  Laser-cut the vertical from sheet and apply strip flanges?



The air brake system seems much more mainstream for that era.

[deemery]

Aren't those Pintsch Lamps?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Pintsch  There's a nice restored Pintsch Lamp in the Rico business car at the Colorado RR Museum.


We went with a Medicare Supplement plan, as opposed to Medicare Advantage.  So far that has worked OK for us.  Several insurance companies piulled out of the Advantage market here in NH, which has sent people with those plans scrambling to find alternatives.  

dave

[jbvb]

I know Pintsch's name and checked his Wikipedia page before I posted.  Looking at your photo, I see enough similarities that it's certainly possible.

Did you intend the health insurance paragraph for the Daily Chat?

[jbvb]

The NN provided two trains for the R&LHS tour: we rode the coach & RPO/baggage behind passenger 4-6-0 #40 and the wreck train followed for photo shoots and run-bys. The most complicated staging was at the East end of a short tunnel by the highway from Ely to Ruth.



2-8-0 #93 charges out with the work train (the audience could ride in its combine too).



NN #93 was built in 1909. I expect its Franklin Economy Steam Chests were applied between the wars, the NN probably has records of the details of the job.



I climbed the hill for the passenger train run-bys, but the shot that seems most useful shows the roofs:

[jbvb]

Rick showed the sides of several NN 36' boxcars.  This shows enough of the end to model.  I wonder if it's insulated: Interior width 8' 6", exterior width 9' 8".





I'm surprised to see the whole 1020-1025 series in the January 1960 Official Railway Equipment Register. Arch-bar trucks had been banned from interchange since 1949. 1023 was built in Oct. 1912.



This is the hopper dump side of the concrete coaling tower. I'd guess built between 1920 and 1940, the NN probably has the original contract, payment schedule and plans.



Underside of the concrete coaling tower where it meets its wood predecessor.

[jbvb]

More steam loco servicing facilities.



First a simple water column.



Underneath the coal dump side of the wood coal tower.



Two different generations of coal chute, water tower in background.



Closer view of the newer coal chute, plus sand fill pipe. I photographed the ash pit too, but it's a modern replacement.

[ACL1504]

Rick and James,

Nice photo tour of the Nevada Northern. Thanks for sharing all the photos.

Tom

[deemery]

Looking up at the wood coaling tower, I'm surprised the NBWs do not pop out like I would expect.  It seems there was either a splice or a split on the one diagonal brace, with a pair of NBWs holding it together in the middle.  

dave

[Zephyrus52246]

Great photos, guys.  No pictures of their famous shop cat?  One of the ways to donate is for the cat's upkeep.  I think this is probably their major income source.  

Jeff

[Rick]

Great photos, guys.  No pictures of their famous shop cat?  One of the ways to donate is for the cat's upkeep.  I think this is probably their major income source.   

Jeff

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I have video of the cat.

[jbvb]

"Dirt" the original NN shop cat passed a few years ago.  I saw Dirt in 2014, but didn't take a picture.  NN's October newsletter names three successors: "Dirt Jr.", "R2D3" (RailRoadDIrt3) and "Kennecat", all yellow/orange depending on how much shop dirt they're wearing. 

[Dave Buchholz]

Thanks for the hopper dump picture. I was wondering about how to configure and build one.

[Philip]

Good ens Rick/James!
Friscomike made some of those interior lamps and I think Tom L. made a scene for the dump trucks in his thread somewhere.........

[Dave Buchholz]

I was looking at the picture in post #19.

Thinking how life like that modeling is! What a great job the modeler did


Doh! It's real.