Wandering the East Ely yards of the Nevada Northern

[@tomas5376]

So much nostalgia! So much history! So much joy! Gracias tore vez🙏🏼🚂🚂🚂🚂

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks

[@jasonsnyder3948]

Thank you for sharing video of the yard structures!

[@thetypewriterist7949]

Without a doubt, the best Nevada Northern video yet. Thanks for showing me what I will never be able to see for myself. You two are the best!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks. And do get out there!!

[@russellmancillas4464]

Thanks for video, always enjoy what you show.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks

[@iannarita9816]

Thx again

[@daviddryden8088]

The Ely series has really been a hoot. Thanks guys.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks for watching

[@railroad9000]

Another great episode! Thanks!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks

[@robertweldon7909]

What is so special about this railroad is its "original" condition, as of the day they shut down. Yes, stuff has been added, and stuff has gone, but this is the railroad, as it actually was. They are restoring worn stuff, but nothing has changed. Maybe, one day the entire railroad will be brought back. Absolutely super video. ;-)

[@ToyManTelevision]

The road to the north is going to be a real challenge. They started on that, but the whole thing went bad. Bad contractor mostly

[@stephensfarms7165]

Thanks guys. 🙏🙏

[@TRAINBUILDER]

Another GREAT video!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks

[@robertrussell2166]

Happy Birthday Dale

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks!!

[@daviemaclean61]

Excellent video. You could spend a lifetime just modelling those buildings let alone the engines and rolling stock. Cheers

[@ToyManTelevision]

Love the little shanties. Model ideas fer sure.

[@bigwoz78]

Excellent video, love all the yard equipment and buildings

[@Caboose121]

I need to wander back out that way. Went when I was younger but would be able to appreciate it much more now.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Do!!

[@brianfuller757]

Ely is a fascinating city and that Railway Museum is very interesting. When I lived in Ely. I was there several times.

[@ToyManTelevision]

It’s great. And Ely is sort of coming around. New hotels.

[@bill7493]

Great Video,thank you

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks

[@terrythorn1300]

Thank you for everything you do. It's nice to go back in time, to another place when this country was making progress and being positive. That, and because I love trains, I feel like a little boy again. Best wishes !

[@ToyManTelevision]

Back at ya!! Santa is coming soon. Great time to feel like a boy again. Buy yourself a present!!

[@805ROADKING]

Good stuff Bud!! Some excellent still shots you got there!!☺

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi!!!! We have been on the road. In a car. Beats on foot. No matter. Train open house. Out in the desert. Also looked up a guy from the past making model cars. Coming out with a line of cool models. Keeler’s Kustoms. Really cool stuff

[@matthewpearson996]

Exelent video nonetheless

[@RailPreserver2K]

Up in Scranton Pennsylvania where steam Council located there's a railroad that utilizes a whole Fleet of alcos called the Delaware Lackawanna

[@ToyManTelevision]

Cool to know

[@giuseppearditi7963]

Molto interessante corredato di una ottima documentazione il restauro o la conservazione del materiale ottima

[@TheExcitableShow]

I am so happy I found this channel. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the Nevada-California-Utah trains and love trying to find places where there are still steam + historic diesel trains left. This is such a cool channel and I'm making a point to visit Ely, now! :)

[@ToyManTelevision]

Check their website. They have cool special trains all the time. This spring no doubt a double header with 93 and 81. And in a year 40 should be back too!!

[@iannarita9816]

Ely's "new" locomotive is just north of Jackpot, NV in Idaho. There stopped there til Monday morning.(Permit) . The crew is projecting they will be delivering the locomotive Monday.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Back on rails yesterday. Wow!!

[@genegreen9613]

Glad to see your video. Good narration. My first visit to East Ely was in September or October 1978 on my way from Fort Ord, California, to a new assignment in Germany.

[@ToyManTelevision]

That’s a time ago!! Thanks

[@paulmatulavich7321]

Very impressive tour of this wonderful facility and museum. Your beautiful photos compel me to travel to Ely from Ohio. Thank you SO MUCH!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thank you!!!!!

[@stephenrickjr.7519]

I really really enjoy this type of tour. Takes me back in time ( without the use of a flux capacitor )!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Never have gotten my flux capacitor to work right. I think it’s a scam… but I’m not giving up yet!

[@kenshores9900]

Thanks for visiting Ely again. However it requires special people and spouses to hike through rail road service facilities. Thanks.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi Ken. Thanks!!

[@kenshores9900]

@@ToyManTelevision The only Ely I have visited is Ely, Minnesota! Totally different place. Boundary waters of US. Only radio station plays poka music.

[@samuelchambers5]

I'm a Midwest train buff; but, as many times as I have been to Nevada, I have never visited Ely or the railroad. It's now on my own "playlist."

[@ToyManTelevision]

Do you get there! Think of it as a moral imperative

[@rogerstrate5727]

Another awesome and informative video, I've got to go out there soon just to walk around the yard if nothing more, but hopefully ride the trains. Thanks for all your videos, talents and narratives.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Chase the steam locomotives up the canyon. And ride!!

[@rogerstrate5727]

@@ToyManTelevision That I will do with pleasure.

[@ToyManTelevision]

@@rogerstrate5727 hope you are well!!!

[@patmaufrais1043]

Enjoyed the yard tour!! When I was there I did not visit the backside of the shop and missed a lot of stuff. Well done, Mr, Toy Man!!!!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Few go back there.

[@krissfemmpaws1029]

That was fun to watch, it's off the beaten path of the backyard so to speak. Everyone likes looking at the front yard because that's all they think there is... as you have shown it's the nooks and crannies in the backyard that is where the real interest stuff is found. We may be ending up somewhere around Elco in the future.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Not to far north… 100 miles… side trip?

[@krissfemmpaws1029]

@@ToyManTelevision girlfriend and I like snooping around old places. I have an old Dodge flatbed truck and we are thinking of building a pop top camper on the back of it.

[@ronalddwyer6592]

Great job capturing the yard and office detail. That has given me some ideas that I want to try modeling them for my layout. That is a cool idea to be able to get a car to run around in for a couple hours. The foundary would be a great shop to model too. Great video and very help for modeling some great buildings. The different fire hydrants were pretty cool and would be great model and put them on the layout. You never see them on layouts normally. I think people forget about them but they were needed for fires from hot flying coal cinders. Be safe and see you on Tuesday.👍🚂🚂🚂🚂🚂

[@ToyManTelevision]

I have some fire hydrants that I made. But these are just so unusual I feel the need to try scratch building them

[@1TruNub]

I really hope that one day I can make it up to Ely because this looks amazing

[@ToyManTelevision]

Plan a trip. Worth it fer sure.

[@caseyvillemodelrailroad3877]

Thats one nice big train set you got there... got to be a lot of fun for you guys ot screw around with it...

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup!

[@stephenlambrecht4283]

That is a fascinating location. Thanks for showing us all the interesting buildings and equipment. Headed for Flagstaff next week. I will plan a drive to Ely shortly after. Worth it to pet Dirt.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Enjoy!

[@robertemmons2260]

Once again you two have another great video! I absolutely enjoyed watching the tour around the yard and the shops. The foundry had caught my interest. I can only imagine how work was back in those days. At 08:19 at the right of the frame, you had given us a Preamble of the wrecking crane in operation, I would call this an Easter egg, hidden things in plain sight and not the subject of topic. Thanks again for another great video!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks again!!!

[@billgreer870]

Boy modeling that Ely yard would be so neat , it has everything . I pray my wife & i can get out there , doing those things. How well you know health issues put up roadblocks. Thank-you

[@garyacker7388]

Quality and content is something that you folks always have, thank you so much. Your the first channel that I subscribed to.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks again!!!

[@rickcrawford9389]

Hi, I watch your videos on my TV, so I finally walked over to my computer to Subscribe. Have been planning to go to Ely to see Great Basin National Park. Now I have a reason to spend more time there. Thanx, take care, Rick, Olympia WA

[@ToyManTelevision]

Check out the Piedmont charcoal ovens between the park and Ely. Wow!!

[@pjasyl]

Missed watching this video of all the structures on the Nevada Northern. Great description of the purpose of each, also shots of back of shops etc. . Hope that some time in the future NR will restore the Jordan spreader to operating condition like the crane if not cosmetic ? What a historical treasure all the records still intact!! What a shame all the historical records of our long gone railway were destroyed. Luckily I have thanks to very close friend a electrician now deceased who worked in the locomotive shop a electrical log book of all repairs to passenger rolling stock including RPO cars, also railway coastal boats from the 1940's Newfoundland railway to the late 1960's Canadian National.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Love to see that Jordan Spreader but REALLY LOVE to se the rotery plow restored.

[@solarusthelonghaulerrailfa3226]

Well guys as long as you are safe most places like this you are good unless it’s like CSX Radnor Yards in Nashville

[@ToyManTelevision]

We have been thrown out of many a yard. Sometimes for just standing too close to the property line!

[@yourlocalidiot23432]

cool!

[@pbyfr]

As much as I like steam locomotives, seeing all these different buildings with there specific uses was even more interesting. It's incredible the need for all theses buildings. The scale is quite strange, never seen this concept.

[@royreynolds108]

The use of separate rails to weigh cars is to keep the "high" wheel loads of the locomotive off the scale rails and scale operating parts which could easily be damaged by that much weight. Locomotive manufacturers had a scale building set up to be able to weigh each wheel under a locomotive at the same time so it could be weighed empty and when fully loaded with water and fuel, steamed up ready to hit the main line. The actual wheel weights were kept classified to the manufacturer and railroad accounting office as most loco crews were paid partially by weight on the drivers when operational by most of the railroads. There are sets of levers under each rail that are hung or pivot on knife edges to reduce friction that come together in the scale house that use weights similar to the scales at a meat market or doctor's office for determining the weight of a car. Are you familiar with a warehouse scale or other scale for weighing loads of hundreds of pounds, this would be similar? If a car is too long for the scale rails then each end is weighed and added together. Most cars would weigh no more than 50 or 60 ton load plus car weight with occasional 75 ton load when the NN was built. That is why the railroad was laid with 60 lb rail. I can't remember which model manufacturer made the model but I have a HO scale model of a track scale. Usually, 4-wheeled scale test cars weighed 30,000 or 40,000 lbs and had no air brakes, just hand brakes, to be moved as the last car of a train at less than 25 mph. New electronic scales have separate rails with sensors that are capable of weighing locomotives so are in the main yard lead to weigh everything that goes over them. The only requirements for these electronic scales are the approach and leaving rails must be in gauge and to a specified grade of + or - 1/64 inch for a given number of feet on either side of the scale. I helped run the grade for a new scale installation that had gone in and the railroad was having weight errors. After running the grade on both rails to 1/8 inch for a car length each way, the scale representative said that there would be a rail "hump" of a certain amount at a certain distance out and there was at that spot based on the error of the car wheel weights.

[@pbyfr]

@@royreynolds108 Thanks for the information. That's make a lot of senses, the simpler type of scale I have seen must have been some dead end, on which cars are pushed, but locomotives never goes. As modeler, it may be more interesting as more movements are needed, but it is indeed a big loss of time, except in very big installation. The double rails don't must cost a lot more, and are a lot more practical.

[@johnjablonski2155]

I love your videos. I have down loaded some of them and made still frames and use them as a slide show on my desk top. I really like the ones from here and the ones from C & T yard and the Coaling Tower.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Cool. Putting up a show on the Chama sand house soon!

[@Bolivar2012able]

Interesting Sir! ;)

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks

[@warrior3456_]

the burnt boxcar has a good story to why it's destroyed

[@davidkoehler136]

I need to go there

[@ToyManTelevision]

Do it. It’s s really great.

[@samfuller6273]

Is the back side of the shops kind of like the backside of water? (Jungle Cruise Disneyland)

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup. (Did you know Disney’s grand kids would sneak in there to swim? Only about 200 feet from the door to their apartment).

[@ThePaulv12]

I find there's scarcely anything more entrancing than filthy rusty weathered rail infrastructure and rolling stock. Even rails in compacted oily dirt and an overgrown ROW is an endless source of fascination.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yes indeed

[@matthewpearson996]

Wonder if they’ll do the Durango and silver tons oil burner 493?

[@ToyManTelevision]

At some point yes. If the last coal mine closes they will not be able to afford trucking in coal for hundreds of miles. So at that point they will all be oil. Same at Durango

[@5-7Farms]

You guys missed seeing locomotive 201 being brought by truck from Washington.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup. Just by days. On the track again!!!

[@DillonTrinhProductions]

Not related, but you should visit the Nevada County Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum since Glenbrook's sister locomotive is being restored there.

[@ToyManTelevision]

On our list!!

[@paulmatulavich7321]

When was this filmed? Great colors and beautiful skies.

[@robertmongerthe9025]

The high deserts of Nevada are like that this time of year. It gets cold in White Pine County early (Ely sits at 6200ft) and the air is dry. Stargazers just love the place.

[@paulmatulavich7321]

@@robertmongerthe9025 Great information, Thank you. Sounds like a great place to retire for abundant sunshine and wide open tranquility.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Just a few weeks ago. Fall 2021.

[@jacobramsey7624]

Thanks for doing this video!! I really appreciate it! The Conway Scenic Railroads yard used to be the same way but in recent years parts of it got roped off. Parts of it are still excessable to the public but not as much as it use to be. Question, the track there rebuilding, is it were the trains original went to go to the mine?

[@ToyManTelevision]

The “bypass” line to the mine is what they use now as far as keystone. The original line through town was removed years ago. But the bypass only went around the town. The rest of the keystone line is original

[@jacobramsey7624]

@@ToyManTelevision ok. So it is along the active track where the railroad will split to go to the newly restored train station correct?

[@joenewstead4848]

What is their fourth steam engine and it's wheel arrangement? I know of the 40 and 81 and 93.

[@ToyManTelevision]

It’s a saddle tank. Mill switcher. 0-6-0 as I recall.

[@bobross4449]

I think there are 2 UP boxcars and 1 SSW boxcar on the property somewhere

[@ToyManTelevision]

I’ll bet. Most stuff here but also just up the line a bit and some scattered for 100 miles north.

[@bernardc2553]

Never tire of this railroad, to my knowledge it's the most complete ,All Original Railroad in America, Dale is Mark still #1 ichy-bon their?

[@coalandsteelrailroadvideos1342]

Cumbres and Toltec and East broad top would be only other ones that I know of but they are narrow gauge

[@bernardc2553]

@@coalandsteelrailroadvideos1342 YES it is However it too is amazing Crown Jewel, Lived close never went :-( now its hi on the bucket list for sure!

[@royreynolds108]

@@coalandsteelrailroadvideos1342 The EBT is totally complete with the original machine shops including machines and tools. They have sold off some of the cars, hoppers and flats.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yes Mark is there and I think he’s one of the reasons the place is doing so well! Quite the group of people.

[@bernardc2553]

@@ToyManTelevision I absolutely agree,WHAT odd Dale is I learned of Mark thru Rick's Restoration Getting things like the org.Vacuum, & the Speedster. Safe ect. Oh of coarse, the Wigwag !

[@erinconnelly7339]

What happened to their bobber caboose? The body was sitting on a small 4 wheeled car by the carpenters shop 12-13 years ago.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Still on the flat car. In the foundry. Dirt lives in it!

[@erinconnelly7339]

@@ToyManTelevision glad to hear they have moved it inside and he has taken up residence in it to keep the mice away.Di you know of any plans for it?

[@davidspencer8373]

Lol

[@notlisted-cl5ls]

wonder if anyone has found where mark hides all his money there