The last leg of our Mt. Whitney trip

After visiting Great Basin National Park, it was time to go home. We decided to go through Ely Nevada because they had a historic train museum from the Nevada Northern Railway. At this national historic landmark, visitors are allowed to walk through the dirt and grime of a living running train shop where they restore and run their steam and other locomotives. As we approached the steam engine I asked how long it takes to warm it up to back it out of the train house so that they could take it on a ride and the conductor said 5 hours. He asked if I wanted to help and of course I said yes. He let me help shovel coal to fire up the boiler. It was a lot of fun and a great way to end our trip.

Restored steam locomotive

Debra walking through the train house

 Shoveling coal into the fire box of the steam locomotive

Walking around the train yard