The rain has come on the first day of the Trains Magazine photoshoot on the Nevada Northern, but rainy days can often create some interesting lighting. It's late afternoon, as Nevada Northern's n... (more)

With #40, the regular Nevada Northern passenger locomotive, down for its 1472 inspection, the new kid on the block, #81 takes the "Steptoe Valley Flyer" train set out into its namesake v... (more)

Newly restored Consolidation #81 struts its stuff as it brings a freight train into the East Ely yard during the Trains Magazine celebration of the return to service of #81, and the 81st anniversa... (more)

While the Trains Magazine photoshoot was primarily about #81, we did get a chance to get a look at #40 in the shop, currently down for its FRA mandated "1472" inspection. Here we see a member of ... (more)

From a Trains Magazine photoshoot in Ely, NV celebrating the return to service of Baldwin Consolidation #81, and the 81st anniversary of Trains Magazine. The weather forcast was pretty dire, but t... (more)

NNRY 81 is finally under steam again after a comprehensive restoration. To celebrate the railroad partnered with Trains Magazine to charter a special weekend photo shoot. Coincidentally Trains is ... (more)

Nevada Northern No. 40 cruises back into Ely after making the journey to Ruth to turn the two passenger cars in tow for the following days photographer special.

Awakened from its slumber, Nevada Northern No. 93 begins to build steam pressure for today's activities across the railroad.

For the first time in 69 years, Nevada Northern 81 is under steam, pulling a freight train. As we were turning 93 on the wye, I asked my engineer to stop next to 81 to snap a quick picture of the ... (more)

40 pulls a two car Ping Pong Local through a fresh snow fall.

The desert floor is dusted with snow as a Nevada Northern freight train, pulled by 2-8-0 No. 93, steams by approaching the fill of Steptoe Creek near East Ely, Nevada, on February 2, 2003.

Silhouetted by the morning sun, Nevada Northern 2-8-0 No. 93 pulls a short freight over Steptoe Creek fill near East Ely, Nevada on a cold February 8, 2004. NNRy operates these special photo train... (more)

Nevada Northern 2-8-0 No. 93 and a short ore train steams past the snow-covered cliffs south of Adverse, Nevada, on a crisp February 8, 2004, during one of NNRy’s winter photography specials.

Snow is falling as Nevada Northern Alco RS3 No. 109 pulls a ballast train through Tunnel 1 west of Ely, Nevada, on February 7, 2004. No. 109 was built in November 1950 by American Locomotive Compa... (more)

On a quiet February 7, 2005, morning, a lonely crossbuck guards a rarely-used grade crossing on the Nevada Northern Railway at East Ely, Nevada.