Northern Nevada Railway

"It figures. I would make it out here when the museum is closed for the season. Even so, a better placement for #100 would be at the East Ely Train Depot, not locked away on the museum grounds?" -- March 2008

White Pine County Museum -- Ely

White Pine
39.252600, -114.878639

Original Date Visited: 3/13/08
Signed: No

Notes: Here's one of the more interesting placements in the system and one that's easily missed! Aside from its lack of signage, this one can be a bit tricky because it sits behind bars - literally. Find it about twenty yards behind the wrought-iron fence on the grounds of the White Pine Museum from Aultman Street.

If the museum is closed, you can view Marker 100 from the sidewalk as I did. Unless you don't mind seeing it from the sidewalk, try to plan your trip in mid-summer when the museum is open to visitors from 8am to 4pm, Tuesday through Saturday.

Here's what you'll see!

Marker 100 on the grounds of the White Pine Museum in Ely Here is the view from the sidewalk. All aboard the Northern Nevada Railroad!

Exact Description:
Mark Requa's Nevada Consolidated Copper Company built a 150-mile line from Cobre on the Southern Pacific to Ely in 1905-06 to haul ore from Copper Flat mines west of Ely.

Ore was loaded into railroad gondolas at Copper Flat for the trip to the smelter at McGill, over a double-track trestle 1720 feet long. The trestle burned in 1922 and was replaced with an earth fill.

Passenger service and the "school train" carrying McGill youth to Ely High School ended in 1941. Copper ore still moves over the railway between the Copper Flat pit and the McGill concentrator and is still shipped out to Cobre. Freight trains also occasionally still ply the track between Ely and Cobre on the Southern Pacific and Ely and Shafter on the Western Pacific.