Train Museum

One of our first activities in Ely, NV (which was where Derek's parents grew up and went to high school) was visiting the railroad museum.

This is an old steam engine that was nicknamed "the ghost train." During WWII they wanted to scrap all the old steam engines so they could use the metal for the war effort. The engineers liked her so much, they kept hiding her in different places so she couldn't be used for scrap metal - hence the name. She still runs today, in fact, we got to see them dumping all her soot and filling her tender up with new coal.

We went on a train ride and got a tour of the town and then toured the machine shed. The ghost train was parked there in the shed at the time so we got to take a picture with her.