America's Newest Scenic Railroad Line - Mc Gill Nevada
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- While we were having fun in Ely Nevada, they announced they had received over 10 million dollars to restore the tracks to the passenger depot at Mc Gill AND finish the depot restoration including building a "depot village" complete with steam facilities including a gallows turntable!
Originally the Nevada Northern connected Cobre Nevada on the Southern Pacific to Ely and the mines at Ruth and Keystone. Some 110 miles. (177 Km) The mills were to be built at East Ely, but land deals and market manipulation forced the mills to be built north of there at Mc Gill. There were (and still are) three lines running north from East Ely. The main to Cobre, the high line to the area at the top of the mills where raw ore was delivered to be fed into the gravity system through the mills, and the passenger-copper line from the smelter and mill as well as the Mc Gill Depot. The high line is in use to a point near the wye where the ore trains once fed the top of the mill. The Nevada Northern Railway runs champagne trains and the "Star Train" to that location where on a moonless night billions of stars can be seen.
Steam trains run up Robenson Canyon to the mines at Keystone. But soon trains will also connect to the restored depot at Mc Gill! This will require a lot of track rebuilding as well as creating a new end of track at Mc Gill as the original line entered the mill site, now off limited and the tracks have been removed.
We are looking forward to the new scenic line and plan to be on hand for the first runs!!
nnry.com/
![[UNCUT] The Loyal Pin ปิ่นภักดิ์ EP.7 (1/4)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/2rPGOyKs0VE/mqdefault.jpg)
Im glad the USA is realising its railroad history with more heritage railways. Lovely locomotive thanks great video.
Thanks for watching. Great to see these historic railroads coming back
This is cool news. Now more people will be able to enjoy this historic area and the history will be preserved.
Exciting news from the Nevada and northern railroad
Always good knowing tracks that were abandoned or out of service are being rebuilt for useful service once again. A rare thing in this day and age. Thanks for the update.
Not a bike path this time. Thank goodness
Love the green paint on the locomotive. has a bit of British steam about it..
And a good morning from Port St Lucie, Florida. As always a great episode.
Thanks
Bob
Thanks
And other great news, the 201 is now back home in Ely. 401 will be soon also.
Back on the track now. Looks great!!
That is absolutely great to hear thanks for sharing the news 👍👍
Watched much earlier But didn't get a chance to comment (JURY WAS suppose to ..) So great full of ppl like You & Karen GREAT NEWS for our little NV R.R. ❤ it. HISTORICALLY it's still running the SAME TRAINS the RR was BORN WITH. how cool is that folks?
THE MILL AT MCGILL VERY GOOD VIDEO VERY INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS WITH YOUR SUBSCRIBERS THANK YOU YOU BOTH JIM KAMMERER OF PHILADELPHIA PA 👍👍👍👍👌GOOD NEWS INDEED THANK YOU AGAIN FOR SHARING THIS WITH YOUR FRIENDS
Good morning and happy Tuesday hello from Detroit Michigan 👋
Hello!!!
This will be a gigantic shot in the arm for the little town of McGill. When the mill shut down almost everyone had written McGill off-destined to slowly fade away into the desert as its population, mostly retired Kennecott workers, aged and died or moved away. I see a new day dawning for this lonely little town on the edge of nowhere. Miracles do happen!
Apparently they are planning quite a village there! I’ve bought up several of the main structures.
@@ToyManTelevision I live in Carlin, Nevada where our Historical Society is trying to preserve what little is left of our railroad heritage. Unlike Ely every one of our original railroad structures have been torn down. I'm told this is the price of progress.
Thanks for the tour that included google!
Hi and thanks
Thanks for the update! I hope you 2 Funsters are well & happy!
Man talk about amazing news!!!!! I firmly believe we are living in a renaissance of preserving steam locomotives, and the resurgence of America’s railroads. I’m a huge history dork and I love American history; and what’s more American than trains? The trains built this great nation, and seeing this make me happy to see that American history is being preserved. Well, not just persevered, but brought back to life. As always love you guys and love your videos, y’all are a real treat to listen to.
Andy
Hi! We AGREE! We love to see a steam locomotive running but running where? So many trains are not used much. D and RGW 315 moved to Chama just so they could run it often. And WOW! Yes! More track is great! And the restoration of the Mc Gill depot is wonderful!
How wonderful to invest in the past to ensure the future for historical purposes and tourist/enthusiast's to come and experience. Thanks for the ride along.
My one and only subscription, love these intelligent episodes
Wow thanks!
Yes we will. We will be there!
Us too!
Very cool that the grant was approved, so many request for expansion at a lot of historic railroads go unanswered or denied. Very cool indeed
The Nevada Northern is the Museum that Could, Can and Did.
Awesome News. I love it when things get restores. Its sad how things are just left to die like the coal mill. I so enjoy your videos. I've been following your channel fore a long time now and I so enjoy all you have shared. keep up the great work.
Hi and THANKS!!!’n
I'm cool! I hit that blue button! Lol. Best railroad news I heard thus far!!! This is so awesome and I can't wait to see all this in action. Gonna be such a blast!
They told us last month that it’s going to take a while. So many projects there!!
We'll have to ride the RR to McGill when its in.
Soon too.
Another great video I hope you guys are doing well this is Mr. Bill from Little River, South Carolina.
Hi!!! All well thanks
we will make a trip out when it opens, great news
Perhaps two years? So much going on there. Two steam locomotives in the shop. Two new Alcos arriving. And now rebuild 14 miles of track and put in a turntable and restore several buildings in McGill???? Geeeezzzzz
Fantastic looking forward to seeing more about it . Have a great day
Thanks
I enjoyed hearing and seeing the history of this railroad. There is a lot of places that the history of the different old railroads and the yards that maintain them that are disappearing. It is great that they got the money to save it for future generations. We have lost a lot of areas like this unfortunately as everything changes with the progress of time. Be safe and see you on Sunday.👍🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂
Thanks again!!!! Train shows coming up
Thanks for the update!
Knowing that NNRY has taken ownership of several buildings in McGill, sometime in the not too distant future you will be able to walk around and visit the past.
Save McGill! It was nice the first time I saw it. Ok mill town but a nice looking place
This shall be fun to see finished, steam back in McGill. I might see if I can go to the reopening of McGill station in the future
Working right now on moving 201 back to Ely. Resting in the shop as we speak!! Las survived RS4.
@@ToyManTelevision That shall be fun to see in service again
Another awesome episode. Loved learning about the old track and McGill. I'll be following along with the updates to both projects.
Thanks for the video very nice.
Spectacular wow very cool thank you for sharing your adventure
I've watched your video about Rio Grande Southern #20, and her roll in A ticket to Tomahawk and how the prop of her (The Emma Sweeney) is now in Durango, that prop was also used in the TV show Petticoat Junction in scenes where the characters were inside and around the Hooterville Cannonball
The prop was also in the “cars of the stars” museum for a time. That’s where I first saw it. It’s really well built!!
Screwing around again ! My word, how do you get anything done? I'm loving it guys keep it up. 💯. Cheers 🍻 👏
Awesome
Thanks
WOW!! Great news that the line is to be restored with the depot restored.
Hats off to Nevada Northern for success in getting funding! This will be a GREAT boost for tourism in the area!
Wondering what the mileage from Ely to the depot will be?
Any details yet on estimated time of line restoration?
Great news to me! You made my day!
About 15 miles. So this will give them 4 routes! Ely to keystone. (18 miles?) Ely to the cherry Creek depot at the white pines county museum (1/2 mile) Ely to the Curie depot and star theater at the old upper mill line. (15 miles?). And now Mc Gill.
Well now of course you guys got more track for your Big layout and a nice new Station too. Hows a fella to keep up lol...
So exciting! I'm happy for you two. ❤️
I went on Google earth and was able to see what you showed. It makes more sense to me now that I had a look for my self. Honestly I thought they would rebuild toward the Union Pacific first but the other place makes sense. Question, if the track the railroad uses now was put in to replace the track there putting in now? Does that mean that there going to go to the mine by the original route and abandon the part of the line that was ment to bypass the town?
Tracks will end at Hwy 50 and the trains will continue to run up the canyon on the current route.
The current plan as of Nov. 16th, 2021 is to lay the tracks as far as the edge of the White Pine County Museum property where it hits US 50. The plan is to have a revolving set of exhibits at the county museum where the railroad will bring up some cars and a locomotive or two for display and occasionally bring the #40 up and down the tracks to demonstrate the ping-pong commuter trains that ran between Ely and East Ely. They're also talking about using the old mine steam switcher to run cheap rides between the county museum and the rr museum once it gets restored.
@@caelumvaldovinos5318 cool! Are there plans to relay the rest of the road bed so the train goes to the mine along the original right of way? Also is it possible for the museum to work it's way towards Union Pacific tracks?
@@jacobramsey7624Ramsey, there is no plan to rebuild the old Passenger line through Ely proper to the Keystone line due to the fact that the right of way has been paved and built over. Also, it'd be too redundant to rebuild that track when you have a far more scenic and exciting ride over the ore line that goes around the town.
On the subject of the old Ely-Cobre mainline, that has been a 2-decade long dream for the railroad to reconnect Ely with the National Rail Network. There was some work done in 2010 with the Obama Stimulus Money, but that stopped due to the following issues:
1) The Contractor hired by the city to rebuild the line was a piece of doo-doo.
2) The City of Ely legally owns the mainline through McGill Junction to Cobre.
3) The Nevada Northern Rwy Museum legally owns all the track from McGill Junction to the East Ely yards and all the rolling stock and all the locomotives that would be used to move the freight.
4) Due to how the National Historic Site rules are written, the museum can't purchase anything or host anything that isn't or would have been original to the railroad or necessary to its operations that was not on property pre-2010 when the museum got its designation. So, legally, the City can't decide to buy an ex-Penn Central SD40-2 and run it in East Ely without incurring problems for the museum because the original NN never owned a Dash 2.
5) No one could come to an agreement, so the trackage is sitting as it is and what was rebuilt is used as an overgrown car storage area.
@@caelumvaldovinos5318 ok. Thanks for the reply! It told me alot and I hope all goes well with the track and just the same I hope you can still expand towards the UP some day. KEEP ON TRACKING!!
I am from northern Minn. and live near Ely, Mn. On a trip to Reno in 2002 , I detoured to Ely, Nv just to see the place, another mining area like up here. I drove through McGill and immediately recognized a "mining town" because all the houses were identical like early mine "locations" around here. I was last through there in 2009 and at that time there was talk of reopening the entire line north because someone was proposing to fix the tracks from the UP junction south to Currie to use as railcar storage due to the recession. NN had replaced the tracks at the first mainline crossing of Hwy 93 north of Ely because of highway reconstruction and didn't want that crossing lost or buried. I loved that fact that the entire yard, etc. was still intact. One thing about my area. The railroads are still running, although now owned by CN, and iron ore mining is still in progress as it has been for nearly 140 years. However most of the old shops.etc., are gone and CN "discourages" wandering around on their properties and right of ways.
Wow thanks! Yeah there has been a rumor from time to time about reopening the whole railroad. I think it’s possible, but I don’t know if it will ever really happen. But this new line will really help Mc Gill. McGill is one of those towns that sort of flounders a lot. At one time it was quite a nice town. But no money, still a fair number of people there but just nothing going on.
This is really cool
Great news they had a petition going for this grant I believe and I signed it to support this. Glad it came to pass!
I'm hoping eventually they'll restore the entire line to operating condition. It would become if not the longest tourist line but one of the longest lines in use.
Let’s hope!
Cool
Fascinating Dale, it can be difficult sometimes to follow the old grades on Google Maps. The highline tracks look in place almost as far as the Y just south of Mcgill.
Yup. They are moving the Curie depot to end of track there. And building an amphitheater for the star train.
🎼 You take the 🎶 High line 🎵 and I'll take the Low line 🎶 and I'll get lost before Ye 🎵 🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂
It has the air pumps mounted on the smokebox. The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad was know for their locomotives having them mounted on the front
Yup! And the K28. One of my favorites
next goal
Cool 😎. I was looking at Google Maps and the track looks like its still there10 miles out of McGill. I think a fill over Duck Creek is washed out. And some paved over grade crossings. The ties are clearly sun baked. All the way to the ex WP at Shafter, Nv. The track is overgrown by tumbleweeds. Not sure what else to say.
Mostly the tracks are in reasonable shape. True there is some wash out, and the grade Crossings are all paved over. Not sure what they are planning but 10 million so.. a lot!
Where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average
Smile…
How many total (from Ely to McGill) miles is that?
14. I think.
Y e s !
Dale:Watched this again. I realize that an economic decision was made to stop smelting operations. Environmental regulations require operations here have to remove sulfur oxides from the waste gases. Metal refining is not a non-toxic business. Most common form of most metals is the sulfate or sulfide. To separate the metal from the junk they have to use thiicyanide. Lots of thiocyanide to perspiration the metal. Key in the root cyanide. It is much easier to do this in some other country other the the US.
We will not discuss separation of lithium for batteries.
The other thing about mining copper is that it is typically associated with gold. Waiting for Sunday.
Beautiful photography ! And well produced . Greetings from TH-cam Chanel” Beach Walk and a Joke “
Thanks
When? I wonder what their schedule is. Will they lay the track themselves or hire a contractor?
Don’t know but follow them on Facebook. They post all the time.
its actually cheaper to build a wye than a turntable
Oh did the track go further than McGill?
Yes, it is unless there are property restrictions limiting the space to build a wye. A turntable will fit within a wye for turning a locomotive. As with the wye that is used at the end of the track now, the turnouts have spring-loaded points so the train crew does not need to throw any switches to use the wye. That can't be done with a turntable.
Tracks for 110 miles north. Perhaps someday
neat
I swear the sound of steam locomotives at the McGill depot is going to wake up some ghosts
Hope so!
Have seen the you tube channel of the father and son are starting a railroad
😃👋👋👋
Found this video looking for steam powered Engines
Quit useing GOGAL, please try DUCK DUCK GO
East terminal Railroad
Need to check that!
@@ToyManTelevision it very cool.i think you will enjoy the videos. They just bought an engine .