I always find out about this sort of thing after the fact, so I am posting this in case someone else might want to participate. Mark Bassett’s excellent newsletter says it all.
At the Throttle Time Warp Photography By Mark S. Bassett If you think you were born one hundred years too late to witness the glory of steam railroading, then I have good news for you: You weren’t. There still exists a place where time stopped.
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Heading home with a fast freight, locomotive 40 is being pressed into unusual duty by hauling boxcars. Normally, the queen of the Nevada Northern, 40 would be hauling the Steptoe Valley Flyer from Ely to Cobre.
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People come from around the world come to photograph the Nevada Northern Railway. Here the photographers are cluster together to get glint shoots of an ore train powered by 105 an ALCO RS-2 and 109 an ALCO RS-3. ALCO RS locomotives are considered honorary steam locomotives because of their tendency to smoke.
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Where’s the nearest airport?
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Airports, anyone?
Ely has its own jet-certified general aviation airport, if you’re pushing your own wings or have a friend with an aircraft. I believe the nearest commercial airport is at Elko, NV.
As for me, I’ll fly in by truck - my Toyota pickup, straight up US 93 from Sin City.
Chuck
Ely is almost equidistant between Salt Lake City and Las Vegas, about 250 miles either way. There’s jet service to Wendover and Elko from Gary, Indiana, Bellingham, Washington, and Boston, via Xtra Airways (the former Casino Express). Seat pitch is something the old Aeroflot would have been proud of.
U.S. Airways just began flying 19-seat Beechcraft 1900 turboprops between Ely and Las Vegas, on something like a triweekly basis, with a stop in Cedar City, Utah, for TSA screening. (Is there an icon for irony?) I think I’d just take Southwest to Las Vegas or Delta to SLC and drive.
S. Hadid
Just a note…if you go to the Nevada Northern website and check out his newsletter…theres a particularly funny article on how he imagined his time at the museum blissfully at the throttle and how he ended up embroiled in the great toilet project…the use of a steam crane in this story is particularly wild…good reading on a slow day…
http://www.nevadanorthernrailway.net/throttle/throttle020207.htm