| *DUPLICATE PHOTO WARNING* Last time in Ely I did not visit the Nevada Northern Railway Museum. I did this time. |
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| The weird thing is that the depot was in use until the mid 1980's, when the staff figured it would be reopened not too long after. It wasn't. So much of what is there now is as it was almost forty years ago. |
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| Although I doubt they kept their payroll on a giant ledger book. They did set some things up to look older for the museum. |
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| The office of the Traffic Manager, looking out onto the rail yard. Again, I don't thing they were using a telegraph in the 80's. |
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| The old freight depot. |
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| It was a cool day but the heavy winds drove the wind chill factor up. |
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| The RIP Building. No, that does not stand for rest in peace. It is repair in place. |
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| The Electric Shop. It has been practically untouched since operations shut down. |
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| The Master Mechanic's Office and Warehouse. It is where parts would have been stored for mechanics and machinists working in the... |
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| Engine House. |
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| The Nevada Northern Railway Museum is actually still an active rail yard. They do tourist train rides. |
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| There were some guys working in the building. |
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| A peek through the dirty window of the RIP Building. |
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| The Coal Tower. |
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| I seem to have lost the brochure for this place, so I don't know what this building is. Let's just say it has something to do with choo-choo trains somehow. |
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| The Carpenter Shop and Foreman's Office. |
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| The office remains in much the same condition as when the last car foreman left when the railroad was closed in June 1983. The filing cabinets and shelves still house the records kept about repairs completed in the RIP Building. |
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| The wind was just whipping through the yard, |
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| The back side of the Coal Tower. |
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| In the days before mechanical refrigeration, ice was collected in the winter from ponds and stored in the ice house. The 12" thick walls were insulated using sawdust to ensure that the ice would last throughout the year. The ice was then used in iceboxes in the cabooses, passenger cars, buildings and the occasional visiting refrigerator car. |
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| The Chief Engineer's Building. There was a chief engineer. This was his building. |
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| So let us say goodbye to the Nevada Northern Railway and head west on the Loneliest Road in America, the Nevada stretch of US Hwy 50. |
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