Nevada Northern Railway Museum

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Nevada Northern Railway Museum is located in Ely, Nevada. It operates the Nevada Northern Railway today as a heritage railway. The site is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places as the Nevada Northern Railway East Ely Yards and Shops an is also known as the Nevada Northern Railway Complex. The rail yards were listed as a National Historic Landmark of the United States on September 27, 2006.

The museum collection includes 4 locomotives and 20 rail cars. The track maintained by the museum includes one of the few curved rail tunnels in the United States. One of the trains is known as the Ghost Train of Old Ely.

Museum activities include operation of historic railroad equipment over a one mile track, hand car races, lectures, an annual railroad history symposium, changing exhibits, and a variety of special events.

The Nevada Northern Railway is the best-preserved, least altered, and most complete main yard complex remaining from the steam railroad era. It was established in 1905 to support the area's booming copper mining industry. The era of dieselization of the railroad industry during the second half of the 20th century led to alterations and demolitions of railroad yards and shops nationwide. The East Ely yard escaped modernization because of its geographical remoteness and the decline of the mining industry it once served.^[1]

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• Nevada Northern Railway Museum