The Nevada Northern Railway Museum

The Nevada Northern Railway Museum in Ely, Nevada is possibly the best-preserved example of a standard gauge shortline railroad in the United States. It was founded over a century ago in order to serve the area’s copper mines. As one of the nation’s most authentic historical railroad museums, it is a registered National Historic Landmark, consisting of the original railway locomotives, rolling stock, track, passenger station, and buildings. Today it features train rides pulled by century-old steam engines.
In this video from May 12, 2019, we follow a passenger train southwest of the East Ely depot along Gleason Creek to the Ruth Copper Mining District. The train is pulled by steam locomotive no. 40, a 4-6-0 which was actually purchased new by Nevada Northern in 1910 from the Baldwin Locomotive Works.
Later we get a cab ride in no. 204, a former Southern Pacific EMD SD-9 diesel locomotive from 1956, along the same stretch of track.