Robin and I stopped in McGill as I wanted to show him what was left of the railroad. Did we get get a surprise!
The Nevada Northern McGill station.
Tracks in McGill. We headed toward Ely but had to make another stop.
The Nevada Northern mainline tracks out of service at the US 93 grade crossing. We drove into Ely and filled up my car then drove to the Nevada Northern station in East Ely to check in to their bunkhouse. The young man in the gift shop told us to come back in an hour after the train returned. Robin and I drove up Robinson Canyon looking for the train and found it all the way up in Keystone waiting to be wyed.
My first view of an old friend, Nevada Northern 4-6-0 40. The train started around the wye.
The train backed around the southwest leg of the Keystone Wye. We relocated our photo location.
The mine has certainly grown since the last time I was here.
Nevada Northern 40 departed Keystone for East Ely with us in chase.
Nevada Northern 40 and its train in the heart of Robinson Canyon. We next headed to the tunnel.
Nevada Northern 40 exiting the tunnel. With the complete, we stopped by the closed White Pines Museum and would take pictures through and over the fence.
Kennecott Copper Steeplecab 80 built by General Electric in 1937.
Kennecott Copper bobber caboose 12 built in the 1910s.
Kennecott Copper ladel car 66.
Wooden box car.
The station from Currie was moved here, and was a swap between the Nevada Northern Railway Museum, where the station was acquired by the White Pines Museum and the two steam engines, 93 and 81, were re-patriated by the Nevada Northern.
Museum scene.
The Currie station. Once we finished here, we drove to the East Ely station, arriving as the train was reversing in.
A pair of East Ely station scenes. Once the station help had returned and the other guests for the bunkhouse arrived, each party signed releases and then we walked over across the tracks to the bunkhouse. We were shown our room C plus the bathrooms and kitchen. I walked back to the East Ely station and moved the car over to the bunkhouse. Nevada Northern 40 had finished wyeing but had to perform one of its daily duties so we moved over to take pictures of it.
Nevada Northern 40 stopped, waiting for the switch to be thrown for it.
Nevada Northern 40 headed to the ash pit to drop its ashes from the firebox.
They are working on removing the ash from the firebox and cooling it with water.
Yard scene.
Once that was finished, the steam engine reversed past the switch.
The crewman threw the switch and then checked the points.
Yard scene.
Nevada Northern 40 on its way to the shop for its nightly rest. However, Robin and I still had three more pictures to take.
The wig-wag road crossing protects the road we took to reach the bunkhouse. From here we went to Carl's Junior and brought our dinner back to the bunkhouse. I finished the NRHS Heber story then wrote most of this story before I showered and called it a night.
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