The Old Depots of the Nevada Northern

[@ToyManTelevision]

GREAT NEWS. Track equipment is currently parked in Curie. The track now belongs to the city of Ely. The rest to the museum. They are negotiating with NDOT and others. But the tracks are being restored!!!

[@bernardc2553]

Had to be mid 60's Dad like to have had a heart attack , we stopped at some little place a got a 50cent PB&J us kids were hungry, need to streach from Elko,lol

[@bernardc2553]

Thats like YAHOO maGOO NEWS!!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Not sure. They did put in an overpass years ago to get to the high line. So I guess they could grade from there to the main and make that work. But I’m betting a crossing or new overpass is part of what’s holding up the show right now. Don’t know....

[@macguysgarage]

That's awesome glad to hear they will be moving forward with it! Loved the video...history videos like this are always one of my favorites. You definitely give Rick Sebak a run for his money! Awesome work as always! 👍

[@lescobrandon3047]

What surprised me is that those rails were never pulled up and sold. Here in NY State we have many abandoned railroads and when they became useless, the rails were pulled out. My dad lived up near Jeffersonville and bought one salvaged narrow gauge rail which he stuck into the ground near his driveway and welded his mailbox onto one end. One night they woke up when they heard a collision. Turned out to be the guy who each Friday night used to drive over all the neighborhood mailboxes. And then had the front of his pickup truck wrapped around dad’s steel rail with no damage to the box. The guy never again tried to knock down any mailboxes.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Are the old rude awakening in steel mailbox gag! Some of the rail has been stolen out there but not very much. What saves it is that it’s just totally in the middle of nowhere. And the great news is as we speak they’re gearing up to repair it and re-open it! The city of Ely has acquired the track. And they’re working a deal with the museum to run on it.

[@davedeiler2072]

Boring, is not a word I would ever use to describe your videos. I find them fascinating.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Gee thanks!! Lots of fun still coming. Two shows on some scratch built models and then off to the train show in Ogden.

[@tomklock568]

Thankful that at least some of this history is being preserved! Thank you.

[@ToyManTelevision]

More coming on this! But first some model trains.

[@kerridillon3120]

Mr. & Mrs Funtime..I always enjoy your journeys & learn something new on every video. Happy Sunday! 😁

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

Kerri Dillon Lots of fun on this adventure! Happy Sunday to you too!

[@vettebecker1]

Would really hope to see the entire line opened again, since most of the infrastructure is still in place!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Even the old tracks north of Cobre. Every single foot. Still there.

[@billkline0320]

Thank you for taking me along on your trips wish I was with you

[@louisgurske8179]

A great ride through history. Thank you.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi. Yup amazing place. Next week back to modeling trains for a few weeks.

[@PanzerDave]

What a great video, and no, it was definitely NOT boring. In addition to the great scenery and awesome old equipment, I loved seeing the depots and especially the interiors. Thanks again.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi!! It’s really a fascinating place out there.

[@nathancorcoran5347]

The Nevada Northern is another old railroad. And I really hope the whole line from the Nevada Northern gets reopen.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hello Nathan! Yes this is a magnificent and magical place.

[@nathancorcoran5347]

Hello Toy Man Television, yeah, it is a magnificent and magical place.

[@mikediehl1468]

We have the same thing back east here in Pennsylvania. The East Broad Top narrow guage steam line is finally and slowly having track relaid. Most of the line has been dormant since 1956 but has never been taken up. Most stuctures along the line are gone. The main rail yard and station are still there and all of the shop buildings have been taken care of as much as possible. Its all original and is in a very fragile state.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi. And opening again this fall!!!! Sort of. A little bit. And these tracks will be used this year too. A bit. Not sure how as all the crossings are out.

[@mikediehl1468]

This Fall would be an amazing quick come back too! A visit there for any of us, even those not interested in trains is American history coming to life! All original stuff on site!! So excited!😃 The 5 mile stretch that has been used since 1960 for tourism and still has good grade crossings. That will at least be an easy place to start

[@robertsnyder5149]

You guys are so much fun. I truly enjoy every program.

[@robertemmons2260]

Because of this episode I now want to go visit the old railroad and all of the towns that are on the route. Looks like a chance for an anniversary trip for my wife and I. Thank you for another great video. Full of information as always.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Do!!! Do not stay at the White Pines Motel. Or the one next door. Or across the street. All part of the same motel. “Motel”. Run by the Bates family I’ll bet. Unless your are looking for something amazing to post to fakebook be afraid. Be very very afraid.

[@peterwy874]

Another very fine video of the NNRy. Thank you for sharing it!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Planning to go back. And explore the north end.

[@roberthertz6634]

ENJOYED your WORK. Nice to see us all PUTTING good content. Thank YOU.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks. Sounds like big changes in Nevada next (this) summer. Wow!

[@JerkRice]

These sites are amazing. So thankful for every structure that still exists. Thanks for doing such a wonderful job documenting these places.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi!! Yup it’s a great place. We just found a new interesting place. Dodge City Kansas in Utah. Utah? Yup. It’s the old set from Gunsmoke. Complete with long branch saloon. Looks pretty good all things considered. As soon as the snow melts.

[@crystalrock18]

What I really love about your channel is the still photos you get to take out west. It’s very beautiful out in that part of our nation. We don’t see stuff like this here in Missouri. I mean we got rolling plains and the Izard mountain which is beautiful, but the seater landscape out there is also very beautiful.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Spent some time there. Hot. HUMID. but met a car guy who was great. Oh and drank beer.

[@crystalrock18]

Toy Man Television Never forget the beer. Especially if it’s ice cold draft beer.

[@danielboone3770]

I love the Nevada Northern! It's such an awesome railroad.

[@ToyManTelevision]

It’s a treasure

[@gofftershnit]

Thanks for sharing this video! I love Ely. I have a friend that lives there, even my Uncle Earl lived and died there. I also have quite a few photographs that I took while out there. It's worth taking another trip.

[@ToyManTelevision]

They used to have a car race there. The Silver State. Not sure if they still do that. 100 miles of 2 lane. Fast as you can go. Record was 211 mph.

[@rokee1998]

You videos are very well put together and informative, I am a retired railroader, firefighter and deputy sheriff, working on the railroad ruined my hobby for trains, I still love steam locomotives but loathe diesels, they all look the same like cookie cutter houses and are very "clinical" looking for the lack of a better adjective... I was born 100 years too late, I know in a past life I served in WWII and worked for the railroad as a steam locomotive engineer before and after the war. Cannot stand what this country is becoming now (especially the last three years...,) I long for FAR simpler times (like when the railroad was the preferred transportation in this country) and folks minded their own business and actually looked out and helped one another. Cell phones and social media are ruining the country I love and have served. I do thank God for KZbin and for channels like yours. Keep up the great work!

[@jimbobjones5972]

Great stuff! LUV you guys and all the trains!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks!!

[@donoien3059]

Great video! You two are lots of fun. My wife and I are going there for a visit next year.

[@ToyManTelevision]

It is truly the best preserve short line railroad in America the standard gauge version of the Cumbres and toltec.

[@unclemarksdiyauto]

Up here in Manitoba & Canada in general, the powers at be think it wise to tear out all the rails while many places else where in the world are putting them in! Not only are trains neat, but effective and efficient means of moving everything. Thanks for more train video and stories!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Still ripping out. But much much less. And as you say, commuter rail going back in! Who knows? But rails will always have a roll to play. Always

[@johnrettig1880]

Welcome to Nevada .... Just remember that Nevada is a State of mind .. And most of the people that I've met are Out of their ever loving State .

[@ToyManTelevision]

Stupid fact: Nevada is the most urban state in America!! What??? How the heck... two cities. But like 95% live in those two cities. Making it the most urban state in the Union. Go figure...

[@johnrettig1880]

@@ToyManTelevision Yea ..... Thank God that I'm nowhere near them I'm in the mid desert just a little bit to the right of the middle of nowhere Silver Springs NV And I'm even south of that

[@Mike-tg7dj]

Distance is relative, Ely is in Nevada where as you live in Salt Lake City. I live in Tennessee therefore the distance to Ely is much farther. Lucky you because that area of the country is so beautiful eventhough there seems like nothings there. I love the West, deserts, valleys, tall mountains, and endless forests. I could go on and on.

[@ToyManTelevision]

We do love it here. But I feel for Ely and McGill. 200 miles to the nearest city of any size. They get by with a little grocery. One theater. Open on Friday and Saturday. Little clinic. No hospital. So people head to Las Vegas or salt lake or Reno and shop at Walmart. 6 hours on the road for peanut butter.

[@robertclausen8516]

Fun to see part of the Lincoln Highway. Thanks

[@ToyManTelevision]

Great history the Lincoln. Private roads! Who knew a corporation owned the highways back then.

[@rrelectric5159]

Another nice video about a fascinating place. Haven't made it to Ely yet but its on my list.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Do. Off the beaten path. Hell you can’t even see the beaten path from there. Which is why it’s great!

[@gleanerk]

Thanks for sharing y’all! Very interesting and enjoyed!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Will be heading back very soon! They are in fact repairing the track as we speak!

[@COSF101]

I definitely want to visit NN

[@ToyManTelevision]

It’s great!!

[@wmjwell]

Thanks for the history and videos

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi. Fun history. Now on to some train models.

[@BarlowJacob]

I love this

[@oldtrucker672]

These Ely videos you have presented are the most enjoyable vids I've seen of yours. Great job. We will be making the trip see this for ourselves. Thank you so much for the awesome presentation you have made. It has been so enjoyable, thanks again. :) Also, looking forward to your vids of Reading, PA. train stuff. My Grandfather was an engineer on the B&O for 35 years.

[@ToyManTelevision]

We really way to get East East broad too in particular

[@gregbates703]

Love you videos

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks!!! And especially thanks for watching and sharing. We have a ball making these but it’s even funner when more people watch them!

[@maurinedavis1061]

You two always do such a wonderful and interesting job in bringing us your travels!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thank you! We are planning some fun travels this summer. First we want to show you guys some fun models and visit to Train Shop

[@NYCJDClark]

Very interesting, thank you for sharing your exploring with all of us.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks for watching!! Fun stuff coming. We have several shows coming on scratch built train cars. And a train show!!

[@ozone-xv7hk]

Hey Toy Man, there’s this location in Oregon called Hangar A. Tons of old planes inside the museum, but in the sorrounding area, I counted 5 abandoned diesel locomotives and numerous abandoned train cars, as well as an old station and a lot of old machinery. They used to bring in supplies by train to the hangar, since it was on a naval air base.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Wow cool! I’ll google.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Found it. Hanger B! Cooooll.

[@ozone-xv7hk]

Toy Man Television oh yeah, my bad. Hangar A burned to the ground but B survived. If you go, make sure to prep for rain, tilamook can get it pretty fierce!

[@kenshores9900]

I enjoy these trips the two of you take. It is like I am sitting on the dasH. (I would have said the back seat but that while safer and more comfortable would not fit the camera angles). It is fun seeing the old abandoned rail road grades and what still remains of the stations. Looking forwsard to your next video.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Now back to model trains for a while. Al Badham’s models for the next 2 weeks. Then back to those later for a show we are working on now. Just bought a bunch of his scratch built cars.

[@kenshores9900]

Toy Man Television Headed to the Sacramento area. Thinking about going to the California Railroad Museum or the Napa Railroad Museum or both. I scratch built some MOW cars many years ago. They still need help.

[@CapitalVideo]

Another great video and thanks for your comment on your last Nevada Northern one. I hope to get back to the US sometime later this year once I have recovered from a hospital visit that took place at the end of last year. One of my goals, other than catching up with friends I have met in person and online, is to visit some railway sites, especially Cheyenne to see the Big Boy. I enjoy watching your videos, especially your journeys last May and would like to visit some of the depots you detailed such as the round house at Evanston and now obviously to Ely etc. One of my interests, other than assisting in the restoration and operation of steam locos and excursions, is making documentaries about them. I am part of a group named 'Mainline Steam' founded by Ian Welch, who is now in his early eighties, and has been involved with steam locos since they were eventually becoming discarded from New Zealand rails around 1969. He initially bought one loco jointly with a friend and has subsequently amassed the largest private collection of operational mainline steam locomotives in the world. When I became involved with him in 1993, he had four engines and this has now grown to somewhere beyond the mid twenties, in New Zealand, Australia and South Africa. I have made a two hour documentary detailing his whole history in achieving this, which has won an Award of Excellence at the '2018 Docs Without Borders Film Festival' and 'January 2020 - Impact DOCS' Award of Recognition: Documentary Feature and if you're interested, you can view at kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpzOoYyojK6cg5o. The remainder of my films are at vimeo.com/capitalvideo.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Wow!!! Will look. If you wanna see the big boy it’s not open often. But will be around the first of June. Depot days. Ed can’t let people in except as part of these events. May 16. So soon. www.cheyenne.org/event/depot-days-cheyenne-train-weekend/14744/ Other events too. But this is the big one. I’m going to watch your videos!!

[@CapitalVideo]

@@ToyManTelevision My health issues are going to be the determining factor and seeing a big boy is high on my list as our largest loco in New Zealand is just 225 Tons on a 3ft 6in gauge, even if its origin was in South Africa. The fact that there is a second one at Cheyenne plus to be able to see the UP depot from afar may have to suffice.

[@robertsnyder5149]

I used to help fire the steam crane at the Puget Sound Historical Railway museum in Snoqualmis, wash.

[@gregsmith1719]

Great one, Dale! Love to see these old RR history videos! Keep it up!

[@ToyManTelevision]

We just found out that they brought in track rebuilding a Equipment and it is parked in Curry right now. They haven’t started repairing any track because there still some negotiating to do. But the city now owns the railroad track. And the museum will be allowed to run on it

[@stevemellin5806]

Really cool it's on my list of places to go. Thank you . Have a great weekend you to .

[@ToyManTelevision]

Say hi to dirt the cat.

[@cynthiagarrett9657]

What a delightful video! (Yours always are!) - Please be sure to share, you know where!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup!

[@awizardalso]

I have a restored 1940's conductor's lantern. I has a red circular lens and a kerosene tank with a wick fount. I've been subscribed to your channel for quite a long time.

[@jonheller2307]

Love the NN!

[@ToyManTelevision]

We’re heading back out soon. They’ll be pulling 40 out of service for boiler inspection this fall and we want to get one last ride on it

[@trashtrainpunk1542]

Really interesting video, fine location. greetings from Ulm, Germany!

[@ToyManTelevision]

We wanna come over! Want to see Miniatur Wunderland and the monorail in Hamburg. Hum.. and the trams in every town. And stuff like that.

[@trashtrainpunk1542]

We haven´t been to hamburg (Miniatur-Wunderland) yet. Near here there is Falch. They produce steam and high-pressure. cleaners for the industry and the Boss ha d a Cafe and his large HO-Model-railroad in the factory for visitors until 2012. The village of Merklingen was too greedy and they denied him more terrain for his factory. So he closed his Hobby-railroad and moved with his factory to another village. How stupid can You be, to stop the development of Your village? Minilanf in Wangen/Allgäu is near and it was one of the first big layouts for visitors 30 Years ago- I´ll look up, if it is still there.

[@acsmith70325]

Enjoyed this!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Boy we love getting out to the Nevada Northern. That is the best preserved short line rail Road in America.

[@jabru41]

Superb video!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks

[@detroitredneckdetroitredne6674]

I watch a lot of guys on KZbin that make homemade speedsters I would really like to see a video somebody on that line great video brother thank you for taking me on another adventure

[@ToyManTelevision]

Every summer they do have a speeder meet and run up to the line for some distance. We just found out that the tracks are going to be repaired soon! So the next speeder excursion may run all the way off the step to Valley all hundred miles! Boy do we want to attend that

[@detroitredneckdetroitredne6674]

@@ToyManTelevision 😁😁😁😁😁🚂🚂🚂 I cannot wait to see the video

[@roadtrippinnomad7637]

Very nicely done! : )

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thank you for watching! Will be heading back there soon as they are in factory building the tracks!

[@TexasDellDude]

Really enjoyed this video. Will you make any more of the NN further North? If so, when might you do that? Thank you very much for making these!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup!! Soon! They are repairing track now at Cobre and Curie. Planning a trip around the north end of the great salt lake to scope out track north of Cobre.

[@TeNBeeS7]

Oh my wow.. Sitting here watching this and you mention the engineers from denmark.(time 05:59 ).haha I'm sitting IN DENMARK💥🥳😂 Thank you for all the HEART you share🥰 God bless you both🙏👏💝

[@ToyManTelevision]

Really? Cool!! When I was going to school in Paris I met a bunch of guys from Japan and we all got on a train and went to Denmark to see hamlets castle. Man that was fun!! And cold!! It was December. I watched a Christmas parade as I recall.

[@TeNBeeS7]

@@ToyManTelevision haha so you Where in Helsinør castle🤣👍🏽 You 2 rock💪😇

[@funeralcrow3943]

While watching this it caught me out to hear my home towns name of Ely and then realized there was one in America as well, I'm from the original in Cambridgeshire, England

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thomas Murphy wonderful! My mother’s mother was from Bradford. And I visited back when I was going to school in Paris in 1971. The East bit of the pond being much shorter than the western bit.

[@caelumvaldovinos5318]

Hello from the future! The tracks are actively being restored from East Ely to McGill! They will be crossing at grade over US 93, but the railroad will be running trains to McGill starting in 2023

[@farmerdave7965]

Well ... that was fun.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi dave! Fun to do too!

[@microbusss]

still would ride this line in a handcar course I would have to haul it around places where its fenced off! was the semaphore saved?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yes it was although it has not been set back up. The whole upper part of the line to the mine was originally controlled by electric semaphores! And they have saved all of that in the large buildings in Ely

[@microbusss]

@@ToyManTelevision oh that is sweet! how much do they want for the town? C'mon Lottery! XD

[@brianberthold3118]

did Ely ever have a Roundhouse i sure get that vibe

[@ToyManTelevision]

Nope! I assume a turntable but not sure where! Cool shops. But a ladder track and square shops. And wye tracks at all locations. I guess the tended to turn whole unit trains.

[@brianberthold3118]

@@ToyManTelevision TY i watch your vids to find out about old tracks and roundhouses to map .. keep up the great work

[@scootosan]

With a Scenic Train and the infrequent crossing the highway on grade it would be nice for the Highway dept to ok the crossing as it would revitalize that area with tourism. A turn around in Currie would certainly help that town. One can hope....

[@ToyManTelevision]

The main line crosses Highway 91 and two places, and I agree it would be great if they just let them cross. We will see I guess because as we speak they’re repairing the tracks at Curry!!

[@krissfemmpaws1029]

That's really interesting, it would be great if the whole line was put back to use... Here in my neck of the woods Great Northern had two mainlines running north of Seattle to Canada. Sadly much of the east mainline track has been pulled up. Along with the logging and coal train tracks that were all over the three northwest counties of Washington.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi. Yup as of now they have the track back! And are repairing it. But how it will be used is up in the air. No water tanks so diesel only north of McGill. But exciting!!!

[@krissfemmpaws1029]

@@ToyManTelevision who knows? In todays world how long would it take a good fab shop to make a replacement steel tank?

[@bradgill6507]

have you ever seen the the western railroad in Portola CA

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup. Need to get back. Was there in the 90s.

[@Brian_rock_railfan]

i really hope Nevada Northern the whole rail line gets reopen !

[@microbusss]

ooh me too!

[@ToyManTelevision]

We just got good news! There’s track rebuilding equipment in Curry right now! Town of Ely has acquired all of the track. They still have some negotiating to do but they’re starting the restoration of those tracks! It’s really happening!

[@microbusss]

@@ToyManTelevision if I was the Road Dept I'd let them cross the highways but install full on signals with gates & concrete crossings!

[@gregbates703]

When did the Nevada Northern stop

[@ToyManTelevision]

1978. Mostly. Totally in 1983. Reopened 1996? As I recall.

[@warrenmackeydiscdragons]

Not a bad deal Currie could start a little serfdom if the people come with the town

[@travelingwithmikeandpam9074]

They found a bridge for the Virginia & Truckee RR! It can happen!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Wow!!!

[@anderswakatsuki]

Without doing the research 204 has to be an old SP unit. The deleted headlight package suggests this.

[@War1109]

Sadly 40 was just taken out of service for it's 15 year inspection

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup. Takes about a year to do. Could be done in a month. But few railroads can pull that off. New tubes. I watched them tube the big boy. Took three days. That’s all. Then hydro. Took a week. Because you need to schedule with the inspectors. But it can go fast. Yet it usually takes a year.

[@scootosan]

I guess the Thumbs Down are from people that didn't get to ride along (haha)

[@ToyManTelevision]

Some people love to be negative 👎 sad for them really. What they don’t seem to understand is KZbin thinks they must not like train videos so they stop recommending them. Oops.

[@lordsjaak]

no it is not boring and i did like the show a lot. i watch also old tracks and trains in the Netherlands and the place where i live is old tram track lines but rails is really every where gone but well lovely to ride with the bike on the old routes :D

[@ToyManTelevision]

I sort of hate to see tracks become trails. But I love the trails. In Ventura when I was living there was a proposal to relay tracks on our path! And in 3 foot gauge with steam locomotives!! Never happened but heck at least they tried! And in the UK they relayed the Barnstable line, all ten miles back into track! With HO track!! Came back the next year and laid it in double track. Fir the show toy stories. Great show if you haven’t seen it.

[@lordsjaak]

@@ToyManTelevision it sound intressting but most reason why the tram rails become more roads it is due WW2 and restoring the country. with that is the company not standing and surviving for next years. how ever there are same types of trams in the tram museum in the Hague (i think) but in their is well steam tram in northern island from province Zeeland (it call Schouwen-Duiveland) that ride left and right on the original track line. but still little lack on financial i can't go to UK and i wait little bit more due politics of UK and EU when that cool down i shall think about it to visted it.

[@williamwargo3066]

Another great film, I once belonged to the NN and wished they had their act put together to bring in more people that were willing to come and work on the railroad, so in the end, I moved on to bigger and better things. And all the positive responses are really great and hopeful for the future, but I think people need to get real and realize what the, I hate to say it, political world is bring to us, and if you haven't noticed, Nevada voted communist for Bernie Sanders, and his policies are nothing but ruin for the United States. Hope you people realize this and wake up and start to think of your future of your country and then yourself and then places like Nevada Northern for a better life that you can enjoy for yourself and your children.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Keep in mind Nevada is the most urban state in the union. Of the 3 million that live there 95% live in a big city. Lots more than New York. And don’t let political bs get to you. You’ll make yourself miserable over something that you have no control over. Bernie or trump. I don’t want either. But we will get what we get. And the one thing we do have control over is getting over it.

[@gregbates703]

Oops prematurely ask a question

[@ToyManTelevision]

All good!!

[@joellekarma]

when the men showed up for work and the place was closed down did the men ever get paid.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Sure! Huge corporation. But no warning. Just railroad is closed. The museum has left the names on the order board. Chalk board where it told who would take what train the next morning Names still there. Trains never left.

[@rokee1998]

Favorite pronounced favor-ette not rite...