Back to the barn. Nevada Northern's Rotary B comes back to the East Ely Engine House after her first significant movement in decades. Cosmetically restored for the 2013 photo shoots, the ... (more)

One very unique spot. In all of the roughly 150 miles of ROW on the Nevada Northern Railway, there is probably only one spot where you can photograph a train coming through a grove of trees... (more)

In the Pilot House. Crew member Anthony DeBellis keeps the watch from the pilot house of Nevada Northern's Rotary B, as his plow extra heads out into a desert snow storm for some line-clear... (more)

Nevada Northern Plow Extra. Nevada Northern's Rotary Plow Train returns to the East Ely Yard after a day-long mission to clear some drifts in Robinson Canyon on the Keystone Branch. The tr... (more)

Steam, snow and sagebrush. Light snow dusts the desert landscape as Nevada Northern's Steptoe Valley Flyer runs the last few hundred yards toward her home base in Ely, Nevada. Passenger se... (more)

Times they are a changin'. In recent years, the demographics of the railroad crews at tourist railroads and museums have begun to shift a bit. It isn't just the boys who are playing with t... (more)

Roundhouse Ritual: The Alemite Grease Gun. In the hours before dawn, a volunteer member of the Nevada Northern shop crew uses a pneumatic grease gun to pack the rod bearings on Locomotive 9... (more)

Midday "God-beams" lift the curtain of darkness on the seldom-seen back half of the Nevada Northern Engine House, revealing some of the museum pieces that "need a little work". Closest on ... (more)

Rotary 101. Here's a rear-quarter view of Nevada Northern's 1907-vintage Rotary Snow Plow B. It's a slightly different look at this classic piece of MOW equipment than you typically see, a... (more)

The snow train returns to Ely. Nevada Northern's Rotary Plow train steams past the old Ely Freight Terminal en route to the engine house, with her crew still manning their stations. Nevad... (more)

Passing the torch. One of the stark realities of steam railroad operations is that most of the men who serviced and ran the locomotives in actual service are gone now. Even the first coupl... (more)

A cold Ely sunset. With most of the sane photographers already headed back to their hotels for hot showers, I risk the loss of some critical anatomical hardware as I shoot Nevada Northern's... (more)

Steamscape: Lower Tunnel. Nevada Northern's elegant 10-wheeler drifts out of Lower Tunnel and on down the ore line toward the East Ely Yard in a light snow shower. The Nevada Northern is ... (more)

Big Hook in action. With the snow intensity picking up, Nevada Northern's 100-ton steam powered wrecking crane commences lowering one truck of a derailed hopper back onto the iron. The Wre... (more)

Winter ops in the Ely Yard. A light snow breaks out in the yard at East Ely as hostlers prepare the beefy Consolidation 93 for a hopper drag out to Keystone. In the background, the line's ... (more)