Nevada Northern Railway Museum

[Rick]

I visited the museum in Ely, NV on Saturday.
While there I got a personal tour of the facilities there which I videoed.
It will be weeks before I get to editing and posting that video.
After the tour was finished I walked around the yard and took photos of the rolling stock and structures that weren't included in the tour.

[Rick]

[Philip]

Beautiful Photos Rick!

[Jerry]

WOW!!  Some really nice photos Rick.  Thanks for sharing.

Jerry

[friscomike]

Howdy Rick,

Thanks for the photos.  They are a great reference for the colors of old freight cars.  I was especially interested in the grey color of the trucks.  I may be rusting mine too much.

Have fun,
mike

[jbvb]

Mike, it wouldn't surprise me if NN artifacts weathered a little different than those in a damper climate. I read they get 9.6" of rain a year, average. Of course, that's more than twice Las Vegas's average. But what surprised me most about Ely's weather is more than 200 days a year where it gets below freezing.

Rick and other readers: I have Ely photos taken in 2014, when the NN had two locos in steam and the R&LHS did a fan trip.  I'd be happy to post a selection, either here or in a new thread.

[deemery]

The Nevada Northern wood boxcars all have similar underframes, with steel angles running crosswise.  I don't know if that's how they were constructed, or those were added later for strength.  That's not typical truss rod construction from what I've studied.

dave

[Rick]

James, you can post your pictures here if you like.
They have three steam locos and all of them are in the shop for repairs.

[jbvb]

Evening of 6 June 2014. NRHS bus tour of Nevada sites arrived about sunset, visited the yard before going to dinner/hotel.



Looking NNW from station area.



Looking ENE from station platform, one of the next day's trains made up.



Silhouette of 100 ton steam wrecking crane and tool car looking NNW.

[Pennman]

Rick,

Thanks for the pictures of all the rolling stock.
It's nice to see what real cars look like. Thanks for sharing.

Rich

[jbvb]

Equipment pictures from June 7, before our first train left East Ely depot.



Baggage car likely built as all wood. Nevada Northern website may say if it ever got a steel underframe installed. At least the way the B&M did it, they kept the truss rods to support the body while the new steel underframe kept trucks and couplers in the proper relationship.



By NN standards, 4-6-0 #40 was a "high wheeler", usually assigned to the 139 mile run north to the WP (Shafter, NV) and SP (Cobre, NV) connections

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This steel hopper-bottom gondola looks like it hauled fairly dense ore.



This one looks like it was built for slag, or something else denser and harder to get flowing than copper ore.

[Rick]

James, thanks for the additional pictures.
The crane and #40 I saw inside the shop.
Didn't see the baggage car.

[jbvb]

You're welcome, Rick.  I misspoke, looking closer it's an RPO-Baggage with a 15 foot apartment.



This is the steam heat radiator for the baggage area.



A view of more of that side of the RPO-Baggage interior.



By the light, this is the other side of the RPO-Baggage:  A locker for either valuable express packages or employee clothing



Closeup of a drop-equalized 6-wheel Pullman-style truck.

[jbvb]

More equipment photos before we left the Ely depot.



Details on the end of a wood vestibule coach (I think)..



The work train's combine is presumably older, because it has open platforms, but I can't say why it has 6-wheel trucks.



Their tool/boom car looks like it started out traditionally, as a flat car reaching retirement age.  But more effort went into the cribbing rack than I recall seeing elsewhere.



Their 1907 Industrial Works crane 'A' was restored to operation some time back, and has both a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXA7ecznWGc

and a web page with restoration details: https://nnry.com/nevada-northern-wrecking-crane-a/

Note: I don't recommend dropping heavy lifting gear at all, let alone onto the wood deck of a flat car.

[jbvb]

I erred in my last post. All four photos were taken some distance West of East Ely, where our train stopped for run-bys. First run-by was our passenger train.



Then the work train got its turn in the spotlight. You can see a little of East Ely in the distance in front of the locomotive in both shots.



I think I saw this truck dump ramp in the background of one of Rick's photos.  I shot it for documentation.



I think I see old 6-bolt joint bars for a fairly light (70 lb?) rail section holding the ?repair? joist in place at the center of the deck.  You can get joint bars in laserboard fairly cheaply.  I know there's a vendor reference in my Signaling thread, I'll copy it here in my next post.