Nevada Northern Summer of 2021

[@PanzerDave]

Remember, it is not social distancing. It is anti-social distance! I really enjoyed this video. The storm rolling through, with the thunder, added quite a bit of ambience. It almost felt like an old Clint Eastwood spaghetti western. The things you point out are great and provide a real feel for what is there. Thanks again for another great video!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks. It’s fun getting back out there. Just back from a train show and driving old up grades in Wyoming

[@PanzerDave]

@@ToyManTelevision The scenery is quite stunning. I love seeing these parts of the country, especially since I am not familiar with them at all. Thanks again!

[@danbelzile4203]

I like steam engines, its. So nice to.see. ps can't wait to.see the next video next Sunday.ps 👍🍻🇨🇦

[@ToyManTelevision]

Riding the railroad

[@jamesallen3799]

Makes me homesick for my days in Utah and Nevada. Something about the desert.

[@drewjacksich4903]

As as basset and that twit crise are there the best visit is none

[@ToyManTelevision]

The west desert. Great Basin. Unequal. .

[@sonoman00ify]

Cool. .my dad worked on the Railroad for 36 years. He finally retired around 92 for Southern Pacific. We lived on our farm in Pleasant Grove California. He made a lot of trips up to Truckee. I went with him on a couple trips. Loved it. He passed in 2010.

[@ronalddwyer6592]

It is always good to take a break and get out to see the country side especially now days. It's great that you can tour the shop and yard freely. Love the live steam, the behind story of the coaling towers and most Dirt the famous shop cat. Be safe and see you on Tuesday.👍🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi and thanks! Model t on Tuesday

[@briansandberg4627]

Getting away from the stupid heat…with a drive to the desert. ☺️ Dale and Karyn, you have been a bright spot over the last year and a half of this. I enjoy traveling with you and visiting Garage Mahal from my porch here in Georgia, over my morning coffee. You’ve also helped inspire my upcoming trip to Colorado in September, where I will be “screwing around”. Thank you for that.

[@ToyManTelevision]

We are at a train show right now. Getting out a bit!!

[@krissfemmpaws1029]

That was really enjoyable to watch, as you were showing the shop I enjoyed seeing the Casting Patterns on the wall and hanging around the area. Most people today don't understand in-house fabrication because so much is outsourced. Thanks for bringing us along for the ride.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Most of those patterns are actually out of the smelter at McGill. Large gears and all sorts of things like that that they used up there. But some of them are locomotive patterns.

[@Santafefrank]

Hey it make want to go some where. Thanks for the ride.

[@fordson51]

I make a stop at the Nevada Northern in the fall when I leave Idaho and work my way home to the East coast. Always fun to see the engines getting worked on and riding the train. Big favorite is the RS Alcos they have along with the steam engines.

[@muir8009]

Stunning video. The crows, the distant thunder, the stillness, the trains and, of course, you guys. So frustrating that the couple of times I've been to Nevada (I'm a kiwi) it's been with completely non-train people so I've sadly missed all of this... so it's all the more appreciated that with your excellent cinematography skills it's just like being there...maybe one day... Thanks guys, and I mean it... Best of the genre.

[@craft-o-matic2377]

Trains and the desert! Wonderful combo! Thanks guys! Lisa

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks

[@kenshores9900]

This was so neat. I always liked poking around rail road yards and service facilities. Good stories on the coaling tower etc. Now I can see where Walthers got the pattern for the water tower they sell. The thunder in the background was neat. Never boring always unique.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks Ken!!

[@kenshores9900]

@@ToyManTelevision I do enjoy watching the adventures that you and Karyn have. It is another form of social interaction. Because I quickly responded you hadn't got to the place where you were petting Dirt the cat. Yes I remember him from your last visit to these shops. Keep it up.

[@N-Scale]

Thanks for taking us along. It was great !!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks mike

[@scootosan]

Great editing with the Stills and the real time audio and music. Historical place thanks for the tag along educational tour.

[@robertswain3226]

Thank you for the video, my wife and I visited the NNVRR in the spring of 2014 on our way to a hiking trip in Utah. What I loved about it was that it was so real and the freedom to just wander around and look. Our stay in Ely was planned though to explore my wife’s family roots. Her grandfather was employed as one of the operators of the power plant at the mill in McGill NV. Both her father and her aunt rode the railroad to High School in Ely from McGill before their father moved on to join the Burbank Water and Power Co in California. Excited to hear that they received funding to reopen the line to McGill. We had a great time exploring McGill, visiting the Rexall Drugstore Museum and the municipal swimming pond where her father was lifeguard.

[@ToyManTelevision]

And I guess they have some of the surviving mill buildings? Or other structures? Need to find out more but the grant seems to include restoring several buildings in McGill

[@robertswain3226]

Unfortunately nothing is left of the Mill, they blew up the smokestack in 1993 after clearing the rest first. There is a utube of the explosion taken from the Park where my father in law was a lifeguard.

[@markeckler8635]

I always enjoy your videos and really like the nevada and northern i'm glad to see the progress on 81 what a great railroad it is.

[@ToyManTelevision]

That’s a great locomotive

[@markeckler8635]

@@ToyManTelevision Sure is

[@hamiltonsullivan6563]

Man I love the nice green pain on that 2-8-0!!! Wish more locomotive looked like that knowadays... great video toyman!

[@ToyManTelevision]

40 originally had a green jacket as well. Very very dark green. I got a chance to see it like that before it was repainted. But the original color was American iron green.

[@daviddryden8088]

Beautiful HD shots. And to be virtually by yourselves with a camera. Wow.

[@bigwoz78]

With the dead silence in the beginning and the crow squawking I thought you were making a Halloween video. Great job as usual guys

[@ToyManTelevision]

Bunch of crows there in the yard. Mostly pigeons of course. But you can’t be out in a Great Basin without seeing and hearing crows.

[@detroitredneckdetroitredne6674]

A very cool thank you for taking us on your adventure And I Caught that. She patted his tender behind🤣🤣🤣

[@nathancorcoran5347]

Good video. The Nevada Northern is another amazing railroad. I hope Nevada Northern 2-8-0 #81 would operate soon.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Any day. They won’t say. But could be this week.

[@katerinakittycat3849]

@@ToyManTelevision i wouldn't be surprised I'm sure they can't expect one locomotive to do all the work. Hopefully when this is done and #40 is back on its wheels the railroad will have 3 operating steam locomotives

[@nathancorcoran5347]

@@katerinakittycat3849 yeah.

[@Shadowfax-1980]

Storms are a bummer when you're on a road trip, but based on the last videos and pics of the Great Salt Lake, it looks like you guys could use some rain.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Everywhere it rains it floods. In this case it was raining overhead but none of it was finding its way to the ground because it was just too hot.

[@TyTytheTrainGuy]

Great coverage! Can’t wait to see 81 back out on the rails!

[@ToyManTelevision]

We are betting September. October? But I’ll bet testing now. It was hot and steaming while we were there. They said they hadn’t moved it under its own power. But I’ll bet….

[@eliotreader8220]

what a nice friendly steam cat

[@ToyManTelevision]

We love dirt. Oh and the Cat too.

[@lescobrandon3047]

Watching these is so much like being there with you.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks. It’s the goal. That and preserve a moment. Forever? Hope so.

[@georgebottarini1788]

Really cool and relaxing. Thanks

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks

[@CapitalVideo]

Thanks. Loved the workshop pictures as it reminded me a lot of ones that I worked in.

[@mattomon1045]

this is a great road trip. thank you

[@johnnyjames7139]

Mr. Richard Reynolds, who had been passenger service director for Western Pacific in the California Zephyr days, was the primary force behind the reopening of Nevada Northern as well as reopening of Sierra Railway to passenger service after long periods of dormancy. Rest in Peace my friend. Long live your legacy.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Met him many times. You really did a great job of getting that place off the ground

[@valeriebassett3107]

Love the sound effects! LOL Really great video, and a fantastic trip. Glad to see the two of you escape Dodge. LOL. Take care and stay safe! ❤️

[@ToyManTelevision]

We are just back from the train show in Evanston. But one fun side trip as we decided to drive the old union pacific grade that was bypassed by the Aspen tunnel. Wow that was really neat. Onto Colorado here in a few weeks for the gathering of Victorian locomotives

[@DillonTrinhProductions]

no.40 is my favorite, they used to run excursions with 40 in the 50s and 60s.

[@ToyManTelevision]

A few. But wow!!

[@jacobramsey7624]

I recognize some of my father's and grandfather's tools from the shop!😄

[@franciscalise1101]

Loved the road trip. I especially loved the natural sound effects of the first day. Some day I'll visit the Nevada Northern. Please tell Karen that the character with the black cloud following him around was Joe Btfstlk from Li'l Abner.

[@ToyManTelevision]

My favorite was Sxizix from gasoline Alley. Those were some great cartoons strips back then. I named my dog skizix.

[@brookingsbeachcomber]

nice one old friend

[@bernardc2553]

OH HECK YAH!! You 2 make our sky's blue that's just what you do..:-)

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks

[@samfuller6273]

I love the sounds!!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks! I have fun doing that

[@samfuller6273]

@@ToyManTelevision ahhh the sound of thunder ⛈️⚡

[@trainmaster9323]

Good video I love your videos when you visit old railroads, museums or places like this

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks

[@pinchy08]

You miss Nevada and Northern #40 already? Well I’m glad they restored #81 to keep up the steam program. #40 looked like a reliable steamer don’t get me wrong. But if time catches us for the 1,472 day inspection it happens.

[@sparky107107]

so much history. wouldn't it be cool if some of the people that signed the coaling tower, or the shop floor, watched the video and announced their presents here. That they watched Love the sounds of the storm.

[@ToyManTelevision]

1916. Probably had to watch from the other side. But let’s hope they did. Now Ed whoever he was was 1966! So let’s hope he still around

[@sparky107107]

@@ToyManTelevision oh.. I thought the coaling tower said 1960 as well.. I bad

[@seanpacificrailroad3700]

Thanks for another fantastic video you two I would love to visit Nevada northern one day 😁

[@ToyManTelevision]

Middle of nowhere but well worth it. 5 hours from Vegas. Five hours from Salt Lake City. 5 hours from Reno. Now that’s the middle of nowhere

[@iannarita9816]

Thx again

[@robertlucido3686]

I went to the railfans weekend at the Huckleberry Railroad yesterday, I rode the train, saw several train layouts and went on a tour of the restoration shops, and saw their new diesel #12, also will you guys be going out to that vintage train round-up at the Cumbres and Toltec that got postponed to this year

[@ToyManTelevision]

Got our tickets and reservations almost 2 years ago!

[@KJF-ny]

The sound and video is incredible on this one. Really great production!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks.

[@garyacker7388]

You folks always make my day. I wish my wife and I were half as compatible as you. (We used to be). Thanks again. 😊

[@ToyManTelevision]

Time is a bitch. Every day that goes by it gets harder and harder. But one must persist!

[@garyacker7388]

@@ToyManTelevision indeed.

[@rrelectric5159]

Great show1. The background wind sound is perfect for the lonesome atmosphere of the Ely shops. Nice to see somebody running trains. We shut down our operations this week for the rest of the summer because of COVID concerns. Keep the videos coming!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Best to stay safe. Come on people get the vaccine! Then play trains! Travel! Have a LIFE!

[@kenshores9900]

Who are these 21 people that got to view your episode before me. What do they stay up glued to their computers? This shows you have a loyal fan base. Guess you didn't know you were a rock star!

[@ToyManTelevision]

When I tell you the minute that show goes up! But isn’t that grand. First show I put up I sat there waiting for someone to watch it. Happened to that afternoon. Thank goodness times have changed.

[@HMSSfrigate12]

Nice to see you again

[@struck2soon]

Great footage!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks

[@kevinholland4156]

Good video Dale. I enjoyed the soundtrack too. I remember as a kid watching the electric locomotive bring the ore down from the mine. I also watched that little switcher move around. I was stuck in the car while my Dad was selling them stuff at McGill Smelter. He also went up to the mine and sitting in the car at the mine you saw nothing. After his work, we swam in the municipal pool in Ely and sometimes ate at the Hotel Nevada. That's where I saw Wayne Newton singing with his brother at the bar stage. As a kid, you had to look Through the slot machines to see him.

[@ToyManTelevision]

The Nevada hotel has a great history. Back before the freeway is this was one of the major ways to get out of LA. They’ve got stars in the sidewalk out in front of the hotel showing all the different celebrities who either stayed there or played there. It’s an amazing collection of people.

[@shedbythetracks]

I save a lot of gas going to these places with you guys.

[@ToyManTelevision]

4 bucks a gallon! What??

[@railroad9000]

I live in the Salt Lake valley and don't get out to Ely as often as I would like!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Just far enough to be far. About 4 hours.

[@railroad9000]

@@ToyManTelevision Pretty close!

[@ChristopherBrown-mq1lg]

Interesting as always 👍

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks

[@timwright3592]

Neat stuff! Have you visited the AZ railroad museum in Carson City? Mainly Virginia & Truckee equipment.

[@jbmorrow5390]

Been there - drove #93 Once in a life time thrill!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Wanna do that someday.

[@atsfevan0242]

Can’t wait to see for 81’s return

[@ToyManTelevision]

This fall I’m betting

[@atsfevan0242]

It is, it’s almost complete

[@charlesbryant1547]

Thank you so much for sharing your trip to Ely. The imagery is superb, and while I generally turn down the volume for musical accompaniments, your selections were most welcome. Love Dirt, too!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks! Not a lot of music. But just right I hope.

[@charlesbryant1547]

@@ToyManTelevision Enjoyed all the music immensely, especially the Figaro Piece! Btw I am in Ontario Canada, but travelled with a small group of enthusiasts to the Train Convention at Ogden in November 2000, with a side trip to Ely. The other train trip was on the Heber Valley. This video is definitely a keeper! Thanks again.

[@mychaldbeausoleil3043]

On your travels, have you thought of heading to Colorado Springs and go on the rebuilt Pike's Peak Cog Railway?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Definitely on our plan!

[@robertemmons2260]

Glad to see you both out an about exploring again! This is a sign of some normalcy in a time where life has become abnormal. Thank you for having another fantastic video!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi!! Yes somewhat normal again. Almost but not quite

[@jml8975]

@@ToyManTelevision Not with Delta on the rise.

[@northpennvalleysteamrailroad]

Great video!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks

[@cambridgeh.lutece6658]

WOOOOO TOY MAN ADVENTURES ON SUNDAYS AGAIN

[@ToyManTelevision]

Back out. A bit! Train show. Ghost tracks. On now to colorado.

[@tgmccoy1556]

Good sound thought the Crow was one of ours outside🙄. BTW every shop has to have a shop cat.🐱

[@ToyManTelevision]

So many shops have a cat. Or a bunch of cats! There was probably 30 cats running around at the Nevada Northern. But one day they were all gone except for dirt. And now there’s also DJ.

[@tgmccoy1556]

@@ToyManTelevision My old airtanker outfit had this tough little tabby named windsock. She had one kitten then was fixed. Office manager got the kitten. One day one locals was washing his Cessna. He had this Malamute and the dog saw Windsock and he kitten and went after them . Big mistake. Windsock shredded his nose and tounge. From then on he stayed in his owner's pickup or airplane. He was afraid to set foot on the ramp .

[@TonyLasagna]

Always such masters of video and sound design! Excellently done. Dirt definitely loves the Mrs. more than you now, bud! those scratches at the end though!!! Aw. 4 dislikes. PAH! Wtf.

[@sammisworkshops3762]

I keep expecting to see Bugs Bunny or Elmer Fudd run across the screen during the musical interludes... ;)

[@jacobramsey7624]

You should do a video on all the State locomotives in the United States

[@jimbronson4506]

Highway 50; my GPS said "The loneist road in America. "

[@ToyManTelevision]

It is too. Omg.

[@tristingubler7275]

I work at Nevada Northern, I was the guy you asked to blow the whistle

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi!!! And THANKS!! Toot toot!!

[@AndrewJohnson-ur3lw]

Glad you are now getting back onto the rails on road trips. Great shots in the shop.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Check a week from tomorrow. Old grades.

[@KandRCustomModels]

Wow only been there once almost moved there too! But plans changed! Ex brother in law and Nephew still live there!

[@ToyManTelevision]

It’s a challenging place to live. 250 miles from anything. But what a rail road!

[@frankhellman6879]

The Jordan spreader looks like a samurai boxcar.

[@ToyManTelevision]

What’s that?

[@frankhellman6879]

@@ToyManTelevision 😁 It's just what that car looks like, with all the steel accouterments sticking out. No such thing in real life. But it would be perfect in one of those Chinese B movies.

[@ToyManTelevision]

@@frankhellman6879 got it!!

[@521wurlitzer]

2926 rollout probably coming soon. Will you journey to New Mexico for that occasion ?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Sure like to. Depends on when. But wow!!

[@shanewalters2565]

40 won't be gone for long, once she passes her inspection, she'll be back up and running again

[@ToyManTelevision]

It’s a challenging inspection. Probably take a year

[@Rebel9668]

At 10:10 doesn't that look like an old wringer washer in the left side of the frame? It just looks so out of place there I couldn't help but notice, lol.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup!! It’s the odd stuff I like. The parts of the shops that were never cleaned up. Like that area. Just as it was when the place closed in the 70’s. Mostly.

[@sammisworkshops3762]

do you know what RR that spreader was originally made for? It would be kinda cool to make a model of. LOve your videos of "screwing around" it is an art form! lol

[@royreynolds108]

It probably was made for the NN. Jordan Spreaders are still available, new.

[@ToyManTelevision]

They were originally intended for spreading ballast, hence the name. But they were most often used as snow plows. Because boy did they make great snow plows! But they can be used for digging ditches along the side of the tracks and clearing out weeds and all kinds of things.

[@gregsmith1719]

Nice video! Why do you never say much about Elko?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi. Don’t get there often. Don’t know too much. The old WP yards and the loco there… GP9? Don’t remember

[@pinchy08]

I just got a new cat. She’s a rag doll named Maliblue.

[@Amused_brain]

Great video as always. I must admit I was wondering when Dirt was going to make his appearance.

[@ToyManTelevision]

He waited until we were alone with him.. then HI!!

[@drgwnut]

Great video and usual high production quality. Will we be seeing you in Hickory for the NG?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Going to the gathering of Victorian locomotives in colorado and don’t think we can do both. Darn.

[@ClarissaPacker]

Dirt the boss & D.J. the security guard mouser

[@stephenrick6672]

And I thought I was a pack rat. Latin term: Packus Ratus Collectai!

[@ToyManTelevision]

My mom said little piggy. Same basic stuff.

[@samfuller6273]

All that stuff ...made in America... that's what I like.

[@ToyManTelevision]

The original boiler jackets the used here were American iron. That’s about as American as it gets. I sort of lost process now, most railroads used Russian iron. But think of blue stove pipe. That’s sort of what American iron look like

[@ryanfrost3669]

When is this first runs going to be because I would love to make it out there for it?

[@ToyManTelevision]

We suspect they already have. But they’re not saying anything to anyone. As they are just testing and something could go wrong. But the locomotive was hot when we got there and we think they’ve been driving it around. Anyway official runs I think will start in September.

[@ryanfrost3669]

@@ToyManTelevision awesome! How and where would you find out about when 81 will be done when it is ready?

[@jacobramsey7624]

Question, if the railroad is in a desert, why does it have snow removal equipment? Also, did you see my comment on the guy from England comming to America to video our trains?

[@johnburger1681]

Because around here ( I live just west of Ogden, UT) we have 4 seasons so it snows in the winter time. The same is true for northern Nevada.

[@jacobramsey7624]

@@johnburger1681 whow. I did not know that. Thank you!

[@ToyManTelevision]

OK a bit of geography. My minor in college was geography. The official classifications for deserts BSH and BSK. PSH is a hot dry desert. BSK is a high cold winter desert. The great basin is both step and cold desert. Classification desert has to do with the amount of rainfall. Parts of the Arctic are considered desert!

[@royreynolds108]

The NN originally connected with the old Central Pacific route line almost due west of Salt Lake City and north of Ely by about 100 miles.

[@ritaloy8338]

Well at least you are not Joe Btfsplk.

[@klausfluegelschwanz6759]

Wonderful almost surreal images

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks