Barney and I have always been fascinated by railroads because they changed the face of the nation and brought us into the modern world. The Nevada Northern Railroad has been...

We signed up for a guided tour of the maintenance building and are so glad we did. While waiting for our tour guide, we saw the train come in from...

After touring the maintenance building and museum, we got on the train for a 90-minute ride past the open pit Kennecott Mine area just west of Ely. Halfway out was...

Around Ely, as we’ve said, is the copper mine, the smelter in McGill, and the Nevada Northern railroad. The railroad had tracks straight into the open pit mine, and the...

We kept seeing the McGill Drug Store on the map of what to do and see around Ely, so we drove the 10 miles from our campsite and found it...