Nevada Northern Railway Machine Shop & Engine House

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  • Опубліковано 17 тра 2024
  • We recently paid a visit to the @nevadanorthernrailway8416 in Ely, Nevada. Before catching our train ride we took a walk through their machine shop and engine house. It's open to the public so everything can walk through and enjoy seeing them. The preservation the organization has done to every aspect of the railway is simply amazing! All of the original machinery, equipment, tools, buildings train cars and locomotives were saved and preserved. They are always working on restorations and hope to eventually have many of the cars and engines rebuilt and put back into service. Take a peek inside the working machine shop and engine house with us.
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  • @cooperken11
    @cooperken11 24 дні тому +16

    Abbey’s a keeper, I think she might have even had a tear in her eye in that drill/reamer tool area, what a girl. 👍👍👍

  • @mfc4591
    @mfc4591 24 дні тому +28

    When your wife is excited about trains, equipment and workshop smells, you have the right woman.
    That is an amazing place, thanks for the tour.

  • @PeterLee-zn3jl
    @PeterLee-zn3jl 2 дні тому

    This delivers the best perspective yet...train rides on platform car
    ARE THE BEST , SCENERY , SETTING AND EXPRRIENCE..!

  • @brianfalkner108
    @brianfalkner108 24 дні тому +21

    Those machines are what helped shape this country!. Just plain awesomeness!

  • @jonathanniska623
    @jonathanniska623 4 дні тому +1

    lived there. did the train ride several times. tour of the shop was part of the ride ticket. very cool place.

  • @carlwhite8225
    @carlwhite8225 24 дні тому +15

    Happy Anniversary Abby and Adam, great tour. thanks for sharing these trips.

  • @Landrew0
    @Landrew0 7 днів тому +1

    Definitely the most warmly dressed couple on site that day.

  • @lesgaal4017
    @lesgaal4017 24 дні тому +8

    I've been watching your channel from the beginning but these work shop tours are just amazing. As a retired Machinest you never get tired of older Machinery and its history, and for me not a CNC machine in sight just and no computers. Thanks guys God bless.

  • @HeikoRehm
    @HeikoRehm 24 дні тому +3

    Been there in 2019. Didnt feel like a Museum, felt like a time machine on a Sunday. Weird, amazing, fabulous experience. Thanks for the Video!

  • @oh8wingman
    @oh8wingman 24 дні тому +6

    Back when I was in my 20's I worked in oilfield fabrication shops that looked and probably smelled like this place. The smell of metal being worked, cutting and lubricating oil from the components being worked with a layer of dirt and metal shavings everywhere coupled with the smoke from welding. You always left at the end of the day tired but with a sense of accomplishment from your work during the day.
    I'm in my 70's now and I look back at the years and there is no wonder about why may knees are wrecked along with my hips and back, eye sights not the best anymore, and my lungs are pretty much shot.

  • @edmedlin2936
    @edmedlin2936 День тому

    Glad you could take some time off work and do some traveling! This was great, and so was the Starrett Tool video. Keep up the good work. Thanks man!

  • @ronnydowdy7432
    @ronnydowdy7432 22 дні тому +2

    ❤ Happy Anniversary to such a wonderful couple who would spend part of their Anniversary in a old machine shop with historical significance and take us on a train ride.
    Thanks for sharing your adventures.

  • @GeorgeBracht
    @GeorgeBracht 15 днів тому +1

    Great Vid. Machine Shop is awesome Most of those machines haven’t made a chip in years. Try to find a dinosaur to run them.

  • @erok268
    @erok268 24 дні тому +5

    The grinder was cool the motor drove a seperate dust extractor for itself so cool

  • @NSResponder
    @NSResponder 24 дні тому +1

    Mazel Tov, Adam and Abby! May you have many more happy years together.

  • @kevinhornbuckle
    @kevinhornbuckle 22 дні тому +4

    This is so satisfying. Due to physical limitations i have, from working hard all my life, I will never be able to visit this museum. But your video got me there. Thank you for your efforts and enthusiasm for machine shops. It really means a lot to me, and many others for sure.

  • @brianatbtacprod1989
    @brianatbtacprod1989 24 дні тому +1

    You had the perfect light for the tool room. That room has looked like that for 100 years. Very impressive episode.

  • @geraldbabilon3976
    @geraldbabilon3976 24 дні тому +1

    Hello Abby and Adam, your reports are really unique.
    I am happy every time I hear and see you.
    Many greetings from Fischbachtal.

  • @lagosduarte
    @lagosduarte 24 дні тому +1

    this machinery is just amazing thanks for sharing

  • @1956Taz
    @1956Taz 24 дні тому +1

    I grew up in the next town over South Plainfield New Jersey. That Niles lathe in Plainfield New Jersey I never knew! Thank you for that! I learned something again from your videos. I can spend hours like you and your wife in machine shops like this.

  • @mdvener
    @mdvener 24 дні тому +3

    What a fabulous place to visit. I have a Prentiss Vice. New York. BULLDOG No 92. A customer on Boca Grande gave it to me. On my work bench. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY.

  • @doublepenn5732
    @doublepenn5732 24 дні тому +5

    I took my family on a weekend train trip... We had such a good time we are doing it again.... We went during the fall; nothing better than cutting through the brush while the leaves are changing and kicking back some adult beverages... It was cool because a steam locomotive (diesel, not coal) led the charge and a diesel electric pulled us back.

    • @daves570
      @daves570 24 дні тому

      Didn't know a steam loco could run on diesel.

    • @manga12
      @manga12 24 дні тому +1

      @@daves570 anything that can burn can be used to heat a steam engine, mostly wood, coal or oil, but biomass gas, liquid natural gas, biocoal, and possibly even hydrogen even filling up the boiler with steam from an outside source without a fire called fireless steam locos, some were even compressed air like the one in the age of steam roundhouse in sugercreek ohio.

  • @nashguy207
    @nashguy207 23 дні тому +1

    Happy belated 5th anniversary. May26th this year my wife and I will celebrate our 34th anniversary! Great tour of the machine shop!

  • @Pistolero-
    @Pistolero- 15 годин тому

    Hey, I’m moving to Nevada. It looks like I’m gonna have to go and check this place out because I like trains too.

  • @Junkboy888
    @Junkboy888 24 дні тому +1

    Love the old shops still in work. Happy Anniversary .

  • @Legweak
    @Legweak 24 дні тому +1

    I just got home from a train ride , the Indian Pacific it crosses Australia , good fun

  • @geckoproductions4128
    @geckoproductions4128 24 дні тому +1

    Most excellent. Thanks for sharing the adventure.

  • @garysoykin2783
    @garysoykin2783 12 днів тому

    Very fun you guys should go all over the country and record train stuff

  • @terrymatvichuk1421
    @terrymatvichuk1421 21 день тому

    Great. Video & Happy Anniversary!

  • @kanakamaoli9642
    @kanakamaoli9642 21 день тому

    Great show, guys! I want to do that train ride. We don't have trains in Hawaii. I love Abbey's enthusiasm with tools and machines. You are a lucky guy, for sure. Aloha, guys, from the Big Island. 🤙🏽

  • @lauriegraham5924
    @lauriegraham5924 19 днів тому

    Happy Anniversary Adam and Abby. Thanks so much for sharing your big haul adventures. I will be adding most of your stops to a trip! I totally share your excitement Abby for the machine shops and trains!

  • @michaelporter3555
    @michaelporter3555 24 дні тому

    Their machine shop and engine house is fantastic. It's great that it's all still being maintained and used.

  • @63mrl
    @63mrl 19 днів тому

    Just visited the place Aug 2023. Great place. Happy Anniversary, and many more to come, blessings.

  • @JoeSmith-wd8ks
    @JoeSmith-wd8ks 21 день тому

    Hey Adam and Abby thanks for sharing your trip with us ! Really enjoyed the machine shop tour and the steam locomotive , so glad they are restoring and preserving this historic facility and equipment for future generations . Happy anniversary to you both .
    Just started watching your videos wanted to learn more about keyway cutting with the shaper as I’m restoring a steam tractor. Absolutely admire your skill thank you for sharing your knowledge and teaching us . Thanks from New Zealand 🇳🇿

  • @Paul-ze7fg
    @Paul-ze7fg 24 дні тому +1

    Congratulations to you guys

  • @a.kaplya
    @a.kaplya 23 дні тому

    Thank You, Adam! It is so inspiring to watch the generatios of mashine tools from belt lathes to CNCs. And what is more important - the generations of people who love all this stuff))

  • @benbateman947
    @benbateman947 10 днів тому

    Good to see these tool shops operating. Thanks.

  • @adventuresontheroadandywiley
    @adventuresontheroadandywiley 19 днів тому

    Loved the Starret videos but this one was great, I love the machining stuff especially the manual not keen on the cnc, it’s great to see the enthusiasm… ps your wife is a gem you’re a lucky man 👍

  • @outsidescrewball
    @outsidescrewball 24 дні тому +1

    Enjoyed

  • @thatclintguy
    @thatclintguy 24 дні тому +2

    Very cool! You would love the machine shop at the East Broad Top Railroad in Pennsylvania, pretty much intact turn of the 20th century machine shop

  • @mjm7187
    @mjm7187 20 днів тому

    Happy Anniversary you two. Always enjoy your tours of the old machine shops. Thanks for sharing!

  • @railroad9000
    @railroad9000 24 дні тому +1

    Living in Utah, the NN is one of my favorite railroad places to visit.
    So much railroad history in one location!

  • @joshschneider9766
    @joshschneider9766 18 днів тому +2

    17:01
    Wm Sellers and Co, of Philadephia Pa.
    according to vintagemachinery...
    The house of William Sellers & Co. was started in 1848 as Bancroft & Sellers, and so continued until 1855, when upon the death of the senior partner the business passed into the hands of two brothers, William Sellers and John Sellers Jr., who alone constituted the firm until 1873. It was the pioneer in the introduction of the present system of mill-gearing with interchangeable parts, and the manufacture of machinists' tools as a distinct branch of business.
    When Edward Bancroft died, William, partnered with his brother, John, reorganized Bancroft & Sellers into this firm in 1855. Their cousin, Coleman Sellers, joined the firm in 1856 after having been superintendent at Niles & Co. The focus was on large machine tools for the railroad industry. Sellers built one of the largest lathes ever made in 1892 to turn and bore barrels for the Navy's 16" guns.
    In 1943 a group of investors bought William Sellers & Co. and merged it with Consolidated Machine Tool Corp. of Rochester, NY.

  • @jerryffvt3722
    @jerryffvt3722 16 днів тому

    Abbys (sp?) childlike wonder about everything she saw in the train shed, just brings a smile to MY face! To have a partner that enjoys the things YOU enjoy is priceless!

  • @joshschneider9766
    @joshschneider9766 18 днів тому

    first of all much love and respect to the old timers in Cincinatti Ohio. From hammers to the worlds largest machine tools they made it all. second, im proud my hometown of chicago is even represented in there haha

  • @arkansas1336
    @arkansas1336 22 дні тому

    I enjoyed visiting Ely in 2010, I need to go back to the shop again.
    Thanks for the video!

  • @stevefish4153
    @stevefish4153 15 днів тому

    So impressed with her enthusiasm!

  • @clarenceburton9654
    @clarenceburton9654 24 дні тому

    Awesome video , really enjoyed seeing all of the old equipment and machines ! Train 🚂 ride was wonderful !!

  • @g.l.g.6064
    @g.l.g.6064 22 дні тому

    Congrats on the 5th year anniversary, great field trip. Thank you for sharing.

  • @unclematt7223
    @unclematt7223 24 дні тому +1

    That is so cool

  • @jeffreydurham5342
    @jeffreydurham5342 24 дні тому

    I think this is so cool that they just gave Adam free access to their shop, so cool!

  • @BerendvanBerkum0
    @BerendvanBerkum0 20 днів тому

    This is amazing. That patina on the old machines its unbelievable, the bright sunlight on them was perfect. And the landscape from the train car was at least as cool. Very scenic place there. Hi from a dutch viewer.

  • @rrsteamer
    @rrsteamer 22 дні тому +1

    I believe what you id’d as a slotted is actually a car wheel borer. Too bad they didn’t have someone go around with you both. Not that you didn’t know most of the machines but to fill out your knowledge base. It is nice to see your wife interested in shop work and machines. Be sure to take her out for a really great meal! Enjoy the remainder of your trip.

    • @rrsteamer
      @rrsteamer 22 дні тому

      Sorry, I meant slotter.

  • @terryrose2771
    @terryrose2771 20 днів тому

    Spent some time there in Ely with the trains a few years ago , Great place to go. You can also take a Cab ride and operate some engines...but unfortunately we didn't this trip as my Grandson was not old enough yet to be in the cab.... Nice place to see & go almost in the middle of nowhere ....off the old Highway 50....Don't know where you camped at but about 60 miles East of there at the Great Basin National Park is also quite an interesting experience if your a Star Gazer as they have some of the darkest sky's in the USA on moonless nights......Very pretty where the starlight is so bright it will actually cast a shadow on the ground. Happy Anniversary

  • @tonyshupe2334
    @tonyshupe2334 20 днів тому

    Happy anniversary! You have a lot of great videos but this is my favorite. From one train lover to another have a great anniversary!

  • @timetodopatriotstuff2315
    @timetodopatriotstuff2315 24 дні тому +1

    Happy anniversary kids great tour neat old machines and a train ride what could be better

  • @NSResponder
    @NSResponder 24 дні тому

    What a perfect day! I love clear, cool, and sunny weather.

  • @johnbrown-rm8kc
    @johnbrown-rm8kc 2 дні тому

    great video and very nicely narrated , much better than the usual high powered Holly Wood Hype !!!

  • @MrSpaz12
    @MrSpaz12 24 дні тому

    Born and raised in Vegas, been through Ely maybe a hundred times and never knew this existed. Gonna have to stop and take a ride on the train next time I go through. Thanks for posting this.
    And that machine shop is actually a bit more interesting (GASP!) then the Starrett tool factory. But both are just awesome and I'm jealous of the people that get to work around all those historic and fascinating pieces of machinery.

  • @nigelroberson8911
    @nigelroberson8911 22 дні тому

    Loved it. I go to preserved steam railways in the UK whenever I can. BTW I live near Ely in the UK.

  • @jdaly51
    @jdaly51 23 дні тому

    Great place for a tour. I could spend a week just looking around. Great job

  • @imbok
    @imbok 22 дні тому

    I'd just like to say 'Thank You' to Abby and Adam for helping with my future travel plans. I have GOT to do this!!

  • @richardbrobeck2384
    @richardbrobeck2384 20 днів тому

    Great video and I have seen stuff on their shop before !

  • @frankcurley
    @frankcurley 23 дні тому

    I love train stuff. I visited the Roundhouse at the railroad in Savannah Georgia several years ago and had a blast! Thanks for the video.

  • @bobscott9253
    @bobscott9253 24 дні тому

    I like how it’s business as usual. Dedicated people in there still making it happen.

  • @jonk6092
    @jonk6092 24 дні тому

    Bedankt voor het uitstapje

  • @francisschweitzer8431
    @francisschweitzer8431 24 дні тому +1

    So awesome to see Steam Engine aficionados.
    Abby…. The “Snow Plow” or Rotary Snow Blower… you said by looking at the outside…. “SO MANY MOVING PARTS”…. That’s just the OUTSIDE… you should see inside. It’s so awesome.

  • @mac43cas
    @mac43cas 15 днів тому

    Muy buenos videos !! Saludos desde argentina!!!

  • @jasonhull5712
    @jasonhull5712 24 дні тому

    I’m no fan of the CNC stuff but the tours and the manual machining keeps me coming back Adam. Happy anniversary guys!
    Thanks for the great tour.

  • @raymondhinds3539
    @raymondhinds3539 24 дні тому

    Liked the machine shop tour, loved seeing the train in action.

  • @1956Taz
    @1956Taz 24 дні тому

    What are great train ride! I never seen a train go in a tunnel and come back out steam locomotive, never on television until I watch your Channel! Ohhhh, and Happy 5th anniversary to you guys. Keep up the great videos we will be here.

  • @thebear5454
    @thebear5454 24 дні тому

    Thanks for sharing that trip Adam & Abbie. Those old steam engines truly are living machines. Happy 5th

  • @stevenslater2669
    @stevenslater2669 24 дні тому

    I almost skipped this one. Your last two videos of the Starrett facilities had me about “toured” out.
    But it wouldn’t be Saturday without an Abom79 fix. Glad I tuned in. This episode was one of your best!! And happy anniversary!

  • @Gefionius
    @Gefionius 23 дні тому

    Amazing!!! Thank you for sharing

  • @jamesfranks545
    @jamesfranks545 17 днів тому

    I was stationed in Nevada for four years in the 80s. I used to go to Ely and Mule Deer hunt every year. It's a cool place.

  • @angelramos-2005
    @angelramos-2005 23 дні тому

    Congratulations,Adam and Abbey.Great video.Thank you.

  • @kennshotts5603
    @kennshotts5603 22 дні тому +2

    I wish you still did machining on the channel still.

  • @jimwamback347
    @jimwamback347 24 дні тому

    Happy Anniversary you two! Wife and I renewed our vows on our 20th at the Little White Chapel. Hope you sat in Elvis's Caddy for your ceremony.

  • @Csharpflat5
    @Csharpflat5 24 дні тому +1

    Great show

  • @glennbeck5138
    @glennbeck5138 22 дні тому

    My favorite stretch of road in the entire country starts at Ely and goes west across the Nevada desert. Get a tour of the opera house and courthouse in Eureka! And stop in at Middlegate Station for a great burger and good folks.

  • @GMAC1964
    @GMAC1964 16 днів тому

    Luv these Machine shop tours! Awesome 👌

  • @markharper4166
    @markharper4166 23 дні тому

    My brother did the Hands on History-Be An Engineer last year. He loved it.

  • @blue-runner
    @blue-runner 24 дні тому

    Reminds me so much of the shop I started my machinist trade back in the '60s. Overhead belt lathes, millers, planners, shapers. Our largest belt driven lathe was 40" by 30ft. We serviced construction and textile equipment.

  • @larry3064
    @larry3064 24 дні тому

    Very cool. Thanks for sharing 👍

  • @user-dn4iv2ne6r
    @user-dn4iv2ne6r 24 дні тому +1

    Have to run for an appointment and will have to finish this later. You are redeemed. When I saw that you had posted passing through the Ely area and didn't mention the NN, I went into mourning. Glad to see you did stop. Now, bow your head in shame. That was a William Sellers and Co. wheel lathe. Sellers was a manufacturer of machine tools for the railroad and ship building industries. Sellers also manufactured injectors for steam locomotives.
    In the early 1870's William Sellers and Company provided most of the machine tools for the machine shop in the new Virginia and Truckee Railroad shop in Carson City, NV. They also provided the turntable. The shop was variously known as Curryville, after the contractor, or the Stone Fort.

  • @skyledwyer
    @skyledwyer 22 дні тому

    Great video, if you are going to be in California you MUST! come see Knights Foundry in Sutter Creek.
    It's a Machine shop you will appreciate.
    Cheers

  • @jdmccorful
    @jdmccorful 24 дні тому

    An excellent adventure! Thanks!

  • @charleswelch249
    @charleswelch249 20 днів тому

    The shop is so amazing. I'd be in heaven working there. I'm not into the CNC stuff. I really enjoy running my old South Bend lathe and 1940's drill press way better than the new stuff today. The old equipment is as accurate as the person operating it.

  • @Paul-ze7fg
    @Paul-ze7fg 24 дні тому

    That looks absolutely gorgeous to do and fun to ride

  • @richardmugg2132
    @richardmugg2132 24 дні тому

    Great video. Thanks.

  • @RRaucina
    @RRaucina 20 днів тому +1

    Cincinnati - what a powerhouse of machine tool making it once was! Tears for all those lost foundries and machine builders.

    • @joshschneider9766
      @joshschneider9766 18 днів тому

      although amazingly Cincinnati Gilbert not only still exists but is run by the great grandkids of the original Gilbert. talk about a survival story alright.

  • @foreveryoursbk01
    @foreveryoursbk01 24 дні тому

    The miners built this country before the farmers and mechanics thanks for sharing the video. Don't forget to bring your cold weather gear

  • @richardnelson657
    @richardnelson657 24 дні тому

    Cool stuff.

  • @jaybailey3518
    @jaybailey3518 24 дні тому

    Great stuff ! And, Happy 5th Anniversary !!!

  • @horiraniera9649
    @horiraniera9649 24 дні тому

    The best close out backdrop bro, awesome experience

  • @JedReynoldsBitratchet
    @JedReynoldsBitratchet 22 дні тому

    Loved this episode !

  • @johnridgeway6718
    @johnridgeway6718 24 дні тому

    Thank you

  • @joshschneider9766
    @joshschneider9766 18 днів тому

    omg i love how the much sought after J head (i think) bridgeport is both the baby in the shop as well as the swiss army knife tool of tools for anything that fits on it in the shop hehe. i wonder how many of those other machine tools that humble little bridgeport mill has made replacement parts for haha.

  • @redsnappa7837
    @redsnappa7837 24 дні тому +1

    Adam you sound like a kid in a candy store in this place!

  • @stabilini
    @stabilini 23 дні тому

    Nice !!! That tubes on the right at 23:25 are the superheater tubes for the boiler... amazing !