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{{Short description|Railroad museum in Nevada, USA}}
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The '''Nevada State Railroad Museum Boulder City''' is a [[railway museum|railroad museum]] in [[Boulder City, Nevada|Boulder City]], [[Nevada]] which is an agency of the [[Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs|Nevada Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs]]. The railway is located on the tracksBoulder thatCity wereBranch Line, the historic railroad route installed to support construction activities at the [[Hoover Dam]].<ref>{{cite news | title = TRIP OF THE WEEK: Railroad structures interesting remnants of Nevada's past | url = http://www.lvrj.com/living/37787869.html | access-date = 2008-03-02 | work = Review Journal | last = Bartlett Pesek | first = Margo }}</ref> The state obtained the tracks and right of way from the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] in 1985.
 
== Heritage railroad ==
[[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 41.jpg|thumb|left|[[Union Pacific]] [[EMD GP30]] No. 844: the primary road power of the heritage railroad]]
The museum operates a [[heritage railway|heritage railroad]] which offers passenger excursion trains using historic railroad equipment on a 7-mile, 45 minute round trip. Operations began in 2002, and the museum also offers the opportunity for passengers to ride in the locomotive cab, the caboose and to operate trains (subject to reservations and availability).<ref name=":0">{{cite web | url = http://communitylink.reviewjournal.com/servlet/lvrj_ProcServ/dbpage=cge&gid=01233001050987469588539959&pg=01315001051039402649762789 | title = Nevada State Railroad Museum and the operation of the Nevada Southern Railway | access-date = 2009-03-02 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110715175503/http://communitylink.reviewjournal.com/servlet/lvrj_ProcServ/dbpage%3Dcge%26gid%3D01233001050987469588539959%26pg%3D01315001051039402649762789 | archive-date = 2011-07-15 }}</ref>
 
This ride features a preserved former [[Union Pacific]] [[EMD GP30]], No 844, which became famous for necessitating the renumbering of steam locomotive [[Union Pacific 844|844]] to 8444 from 1962 to 1989. <ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/excurs/up844.shtml | title = Steam Locomotive No. 844 | access-date = 2009-03-02 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100120100948/http://www.uprr.com/aboutup/excurs/up844.shtml | archive-date = 2010-01-20 }}</ref> It weighs approximately 125 tons and has a turbocharged V16 engine that develops 2250&nbsp;hp.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nevadasouthern.com/Sub%20Pages/locomotive_844.html |title=Locomotive 844, Type GP-30. |access-date=2017-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020094950/http://www.nevadasouthern.com/Sub%20Pages/locomotive_844.html |archive-date=2017-10-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was donated to the museum and refurbished in Union Pacific colors.
 
As part of the [[Interstate 11]] project [[Nevada Department of Transportation|NDOT]] has replaced the bridge over [[US Route 93]] that was taken out of service in 1998 during the widening of Highway 93 into [[Interstate 515]]. In April 2018, a grade separation was put in place at the former grade crossing near [[Railroad Pass Casino]], effectively re-linking Boulder City and Henderson together.<ref>{{cite news |title=CEREMONY FRIDAY TO MARK RECONNECTION OF HISTORIC RAIL LINE BETWEEN HENDERSON, BOULDER CITY |url=http://nvculture.org/museums/2018/04/10/ceremony-friday-to-mark-reconnection-of-historic-rail-line-between-henderson-boulder-city/ |access-date=February 25, 2018 |work=Nevada Division of Museums and History |date=April 10, 2018}}</ref>
 
== Exhibits ==
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| #264 || [[Baldwin Locomotive Works|Baldwin]]-built [[E. H. Harriman|Harriman]] Standard [[Consolidation (locomotive)|Consolidation]] || 1907 || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 13.jpg|125px]] <br /> <br/> [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 22.jpg|125px]] || [[Union Pacific Railroad|UPRR]] || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} ||
On static display.
Ex [[Union Pacific Railroad|Union Pacific]] #264 (later renumbered #6264) is a [[2-8-0]] ([[Consolidation (locomotive)|Consolidation]]) type steam locomotive, which was built for the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] by the [[Baldwin Locomotive Works]] in 1907. It was one of the last steam locomotives used in the UPRR system and was eventually taken out of service in early 1950 and stored in [[La Salle, Colorado]] until it was donated to the Sons of the Utah Pioneers in 1959. Later the locomotive was relocated to [[Heber City, Utah]] in 1981. The Nevada State Railroad Museum purchased it and moved it to its current location in 1993. With its {{convert|57|in|mm|0}} drivers it was one of the four types of steam engines developed by the [[Associated Railroads]] in the first year of its locomotive program. The Associated Railroads consisted of the [[Southern Pacific Transportation Company|Southern Pacific]], [[Chicago and Alton|Chicago & Alton]], [[Union Pacific]] and its affiliates [[Oregon Short Line]] and the [[Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company|Oregon-Washington RR & Navigation Co]] and were combined under one management in 1902 by [[E. H. Harriman]]. The group was later dissolved in 1913 by a court order, but many bridges, cars and locomotives were built to a ''Common Standard'' for all five railroad companies during this period. The Consolidation locomotives with a weight of {{convert|150,000|lb|t}} to {{convert|300,000|lb|t}} pounds were designed for hauling heavy trains over steep grades and were generally used as a mainline freight engine within the Union Pacific system.<ref name="display">Display board at the Nevada Southern Railroad Museum</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nevadasouthern.com/Sub%20Pages/nsrm_6264.html |title=NSRM # 6246 Steam. |access-date=2017-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020094849/http://www.nevadasouthern.com/Sub%20Pages/nsrm_6264.html |archive-date=2017-10-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| #35 || [[Baldwin Locomotive Works|Baldwin]] [[Mikado (locomotive)|Mikado]] || 1923 || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 19.jpg|125px]] <br /><br /> [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 11.jpg|125px]] || [[Pacific Lumber Company|PALCO]], [[Heber Valley Railroad|HVRX]] || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || PacificOn Lumberstatic #35 was built in October 1923 by Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the [[Pacific Lumber Company]] in [[Scotia, California]] near [[Eureka, California]]display. With its [[2-8-2]] ([[Mikado (locomotive)|Mikado]]) wheel arrangement and a weight of {{convert|179,000|lb|t}} this classic heavy-logging steam locomotive served its entire working career with the Pacific Lumber Company hauling [[redwood]] logs to the sawmill in Scotia. After retirement in the mid 1960s, it was sold to private individuals, who kept it stored at its old home of Scotia, California. The locomotive was eventually sold in 1971 to the Promontory Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society and moved to [[Heber City, Utah]]. In 1972 it was transferred to the Wasatch Railroad & Museum Foundation and operated on the [[Heber Valley Railroad|Heber Creeper Scenic Railroad]] during the 1970. During the early 1980s, the #35 was taken out of service and stayed in storage until 1993, when it was sold to the Nevada State Railroad Museum/Boulder City and moved to its current location.<ref name="display"/>
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| || [[Davenport Locomotive Works|Davenport]] 30-ton || 1936 || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 38.jpg|125px]] || [[United States Bureau of Reclamation]] || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || InOn 1936static the 30-ton 250&nbsp;hp gas-mechanical locomotive was purchased by the [[United States Bureau of Reclamation]] from [[Davenport Locomotive Works]]display. It was used from 1936 to 1962 on the ten-mile railroad from Boulder City to the rim of Black Canyon overlooking [[Hoover Dam]]. It was used periodically to haul supplies and material to the dam site and remained in service until the railroad was abandoned in the early 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nevadasouthern.com/Sub%20Pages/davenport.html |title=Davenport. |access-date=2017-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020094614/http://www.nevadasouthern.com/Sub%20Pages/davenport.html |archive-date=2017-10-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| #1855 || [[Fairbanks-Morse]] Model H12-44 || 1953 || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 07.jpg|125px]] || [[U.S. Army Transportation Corps]] || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || The model H12-44 diesel locomotive with 1200&nbsp;hp was built by [[Fairbanks-Morse|Fairbanks-Morse & Company]], also known as F-M, in 1953 as one of 20 locomotives built for the [[UOperational.S. Army Transportation Corps]] for being used in several Army depots. It was delivered new to the [[Sierra Army Depot|Sierra Ordnance Depot]] in [[Herlong, California]]. It is nearly {{convert|50|ft|m}} long and weighs approximately {{convert|249,000|lb|t}}. The company had been set-up in 1832 and diversified at a later stage into pumps, engines, and other supplies. From 1939 to 1958 it built railway locomotives with an opposed-piston engine, which had been originally been designed for ships and submarines.<ref name="display"/>
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| L-2 || [[General Electric|GE]] 25-ton || || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 12.jpg|125px]] <br /><br /> [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 15.jpg|125px]] || Jackass & Western || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || The [[General Electric]] 25-ton diesel locomotive was used at the [[Nevada Test Site]] in the 1960s for hauling [[NERVA|nuclear powered rocket engines]]. After the program had been finished, the locomotive was mothballed. Once the radiation contamination reduced to safe levels, the locomotive was made available to the Museum. On 11 November 2010, the locomotive was delivered to the Museum on a lowboy trailer.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nevadasouthern.com/Sub%20Pages/locomotive_l-2.html |title=Locomotive L-2, GE-25 Ton |access-date=2017-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020095630/http://www.nevadasouthern.com/Sub%20Pages/locomotive_l-2.html |archive-date=2017-10-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
[[Nevada Test Site]]
| {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || On static display.
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| L-3 || [[General Electric|GE]] 80-ton || 1953 || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 35.jpg|125px]] <br /><br /> [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 37.jpg|125px]] <br /><br /> [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 36.jpg|125px]] || Jackass & Western
[[Nevada |Test Site]]
| {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} ||
On Static display.
The diesel electric locomotive with 500&nbsp;hp and 161,000&nbsp;lb was built in 1953 by the General Electric Company. It served initially at a U.S. Naval facility before it was overhauled and relocated to the [[Nevada Test Site]] in 1964. There, it was routinely used to transport [[NERVA|nuclear powered rocket engines]] to various test stations. The nuclear rocket engine program commenced in 1955, when the [[United States Atomic Energy Commission|Atomic Energy Commission]] and the [[U.S. Air Force]] began various thermal reactor studies for the first assembly of a prototype rocket engine. During the 1960s and 70s the [[U.S. Government]] constructed several rocket development stations at [[Area 25 (Nevada National Security Site)|Area 25]] and connected them with their own series of railroad tracks, thus allowing easy movement of the rocket engines from one test station to the next throughout the sprawling site.
The unique name ''Jackass and Western'' shown on the side of the locomotive comes from the geographic location of ''Area 25''. The [[Jackass Flats]] are some of several flats at the Nevada Test Site, such as [[Frenchman Flats]] and [[Yucca Flats]], where most of the actual atomic testing took place during the mid to late 20th century.
The Jackass and Western Railroad operated as a chartered common carrier until the U.S. Government suspended the nuclear rocket engine program in the mid 1980s, so that the locomotive sat idle and was put into storage. It was acquired by the Nevada State Railroad Museum in 2006.<ref name="display"/> At the [[National Atomic Testing Museum]] in 755 E Flamingo Rd, Las Vegas is a model layout of the "Jackass and Western" Railroad. It was just a few spurs leading from the assembly building. The short length of the spurs and the short program duration both contributed to the mere 8 miles of operation accumulated after the locomotive was modified for use at the Nevada Test Site.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nevadasouthern.com/Sub%20Pages/locomotive_l-3.html |title=Locomotive L-3, GE 80 Ton. |access-date=2017-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020095040/http://www.nevadasouthern.com/Sub%20Pages/locomotive_l-3.html |archive-date=2017-10-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| #1000 || SoftType Top Open Air CarNW-2 || 1939|| [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 6926.jpg|125px]] <br /><br /> [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 29.jpg|125px]] || [[Union Pacific Railroad|UPRR]] || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || Soft topOperates summeron excursionspecial caroccasions.▼
| #1000 || Type NW-2 || 1939|| [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 26.jpg|125px]] <br /><br /> [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 29.jpg|125px]] || [[Union Pacific Railroad|UPRR]] || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || The well-traveled locomotive #1000 (originally numbered #889) was built by the Electro-Motive Corporation in 1939. It was originally a demonstrator for the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] (UPRR) as a new class of yard switching locomotives. The new 1,000&nbsp;hp demonstrator served for six months and was a great success. This led the UPRR to purchase the locomotive and re-number it to #1000. It was the first diesel-electric locomotive purchased by the Union Pacific. Over the subsequent two years, the UPRR ordered 44 new type NW-2. It worked throughout the UPRR system until 1966, at which time the UPRR started retiring the first units of the NW-2 locomotives. Shortly after it was sold to the [[Stockton Terminal and Eastern Railroad]] (ST&E) in [[Stockton, California]], where it kept its original UPRR number. Then in 1968, the ST&E traded it to the [[Western Pacific Railroad]], where it was completely overhauled, upgraded to 1200&nbsp;hp with an EMC 567 12-cylinder engine, and renumbered #607 with a new operating weight of {{convert|251,000|lb|t}}. It has a length of {{convert|44|ft|5|in|m}} and a maximum speed of {{convert|60|mph|km/h}}. After being re-commissioned by the WPRR in 1969, the #607 was transferred in 1973 to the [[Sacramento Northern]], a subsidiary of WPRR, and primarily worked within WPRR's Stockton yard. Ironically, the locomotive was returned to the UPRR roster during the 1982 merger between WPRR and UPRR, where it was renumbered back to #1000. Finally, in 1984 the UPRR donated it to the [[Heber Valley Railroad|Deer Creek Scenic Railway]] in [[Heber City, Utah]]. It was eventually acquired by the Nevada State Railroad Museum and moved to its current location in 1993. This engine is used as a yard "hostler" and as a substitute on the excursions when needed. Long-term plans are to repaint the locomotive from its current blue color scheme to its original UPRR black color scheme.<ref name="display"/>
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| #2314 || Baggage and postal car || 1911 || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 32.jpg|125px]] <br /><br /> [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 31.jpg|125px]] || [[Oregon Short Line]] (OSL) || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} ||
On static display.
The baggage and postal car #2314 was built by the [[Pullman Car Company]] in 1911 and operated on the [[Oregon Short Line]] (OSL), which was a subsidiary of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]. In 1941 it was updated to its current configuration and ran in service until the late 1950s. It was then retired and donated to the Sons of the Utah Pioneers. It was relocated to [[Heber City, Utah]] in 1981. Finally, it was acquired by the Nevada State Railroad Museum and move to its current location in 1993. On its side it has a ''mail on-the-fly'' device, a hook which could be used to catch mail bags without stopping the train from a mail crane. As the train approached a station, a clerk prepared the catcher arm, which would then snatch the incoming mailbag, while the train was in motion. The clerk then booted out the outgoing mailbag. Experienced clerks spoke with pride of making the switch at night with nothing but the curves and the feel of the track to warn them of an upcoming catch.<ref name="display"/>
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| #3505 || Pre-[[E. H. Harriman|Harriman]] Non-Common Standard Class caboose || 1882 || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 28.jpg|125px]] || [[Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company|Oregon Washington Railroad & Navigation Company]] (OWR&N) || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || On static display.
| #3505 || Pre-[[E. H. Harriman|Harriman]] Non-Common Standard Class caboose || 1882 || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 28.jpg|125px]] || [[Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company|Oregon Washington Railroad & Navigation Company]] (OWR&N) || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || The pre-[[E. H. Harriman|Harriman]] Non-Common Standard Class caboose was originally built in August 1882 in the work shops of the [[Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company]] in [[The Dalles, Oregon]]. It operated on the [[Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company|Oregon Washington Railroad & Navigation Company]] (OWR&N) railway after being consolidated in 1910 with the Oregon Railroad & Navigation Company, which was a subsidiary of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] (UPRR). The #3505 (originally numbered #206 until 1918) was built prior to the Harriman era and prior to the Union Pacific's adoption of the Associated Lines Common CA class design. It is a classic example of wooden body cabooses that were commonly seen throughout North America up until the 1930s, when all steel body cabooses were first being phased in. After being retired from the Union Pacific Railroad in January 1962, this caboose was donated to the [[Brigham Young University]] in [[Provo, Utah]]. In 1970 it was relocated to the [[Heber Valley Railroad|Wasatch Railway Museum & Foundation]] in [[Heber City, Utah]], Finally, in 1993, it was acquired by the Nevada State Railroad Museum and move to its present location.<ref name="display"/>
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| #12 (second)|| [[Baldwin Locomotive Works|Baldwin]] narrow gauge steam locomotive || 1896 || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 75.jpg|125px]] || [[Eureka and Palisade Railroad|Eureka & Palisade Railroad]] || {{Track gauge|3 ft}} || ThisIn [[Baldwinstorage Locomotiveawaiting Works|Baldwin]] locomotive of the narrow gauge [[Eureka and Palisade Railroad|Eureka & Palisade Railroad]] was a static exhibit at one of the casinos in Nevadarestoration. On its left side (fireman's side), it has the slogan "Good Luck! Inn & Casino." It was given to the Nevada Southern Railroad Museum when its outer appearance had already deteriorated. However, the boiler is in a surprisingly good condition, so that an overhaul into working order seems in principle possible. This narrow gauge engine was originally built for the [[Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad|Florence and Cripple Creek Railroad (F&CC)]] in the [[Colorado Mineral Belt]] region. The engine was originally numbered #10 and named "Independence", serving the road until the F&CC closed in 1915. Last surviving locomotive of the [[Uintah Railway]].<ref name=":0" />
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| 6976|| EMD SDP40F || 1974 || || Amtrak, Santa Fe, BNSF || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || Operational; owned by Dynamic Rail Preservation
| ''Elsa.'' || Replica narrow gauge combine passenger car || Soon || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 50.jpg|125px]] <br /><br /> [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 51.jpg|125px]] || || {{Track gauge|3 ft}} || The replica combine passenger car is being built by Dan Markoff, who is best known for his restoration of the [[4-4-0]] narrow-gauge [[Eureka Locomotive]] No 4 of the [[Eureka and Palisade Railroad]]. However, after finishing the restoration in 1991, he set to work building a flat car and then in 1994 a recreation of the Palisade, a combine passenger car. Other than the wheels, the entire car has been built from the ground up.
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| 231 || EMD F40PH || 1977 || || Amtrak || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || Under restoration; owned by Dynamic Rail Preservation
| || Replica narrow gauge flat car || || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 03.jpg|125px]] || || {{Track gauge|3 ft}} || The replica flat car was also built by Dan Markoff, to transport passengers, when he demonstrated his refurbished [[Eureka Locomotive]] on the {{Track gauge|3 ft}} track of the Museum.
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| || [[Fairmont Railway Motors|Fairmont Railway Motors Company]]Speeder || mid-1950s
| || Wooden car bodies of narrow gauge carriages || 1876 || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 83.jpg|125px]] || [[Eureka and Palisade Railroad|Eureka & Palisade Railroad]] || {{Track gauge|3 ft}} || Two wooden car bodies of narrow gauge carriages of the [[Eureka and Palisade Railroad|Eureka & Palisade Railroad]] were formerly exhibited at a casino in Nevada and are now stored in the ''bone yard'' adjacent to the museum at one of the ends of the wye. One of them is the raw model of Dan Markoff's replica narrow gauge combine passenger car of 1876. It is planned to clean their insides and reinforce them by installing new wooden boards. In the long term they will be exhibited in a planned new museum building in line with the replica.
|[[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 4440.jpg|125px]] || Western PacificJackass & Western▼
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[[Nevada Test Site]]
| || Speeder || || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 06.jpg|125px]] || || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || Speeder to transport visitors to the ''bone yard'' adjacent to the Nevada Southern Railroad Museum.
| {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || Operational
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| || Speeder || mid-1950s
 
|[[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 40.jpg|125px]] || || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || Fairmont [[Railroad speeder|Speeder]]. Used for track inspection and other yard work. This equipment was built by the [[Fairmont Railway Motors|Fairmont Railway Motors Company]] in the mid-1950s.<ref name=":1">Nevada Southern Railway Museum Archives</ref>
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| || Ford F 250 Custom || || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 55.jpg|125px]] || || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || Ford F 250 Custom road-rail vehicle
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| || Hard Top Open Air Car || 1914 || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 67.jpg|125px]] || || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || The Open Air Passenger Car is of heavyweight design. It has three axles with six wheels on each truck (bogey) instead of the two axles per truck used for the enclosed passenger cars. To give the car a smooth ride when it was in passenger service, the floor is several inches of poured concrete. This coach was built in 1914 as a passenger coach and later modified as a maintenance of way work car that served on the [[Union Pacific]]. The car was converted to its fully open configuration when it entered excursion train service. The seating is bench style. The large openings provide views along the route and are the preferred seating for photographers.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nevadasouthern.com/Sub%20Pages/open_air.html |title=Hard Top Open Air Car. |access-date=2017-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020094705/http://www.nevadasouthern.com/Sub%20Pages/open_air.html |archive-date=2017-10-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Further conversions are planned, because this type of vehicle proved to be attractive to the tourists.
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| 604 || [[Americans with Disabilities Act|ADA]] Wheelchair Accessible Car || 1916 || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 68.jpg|125px]] || || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || The Harriman style coach was built in 1916. It was modified at the Nevada Southern Railroad Museum to have side loading doors for use with a lift so that it can accommodate wheelchairs and passengers who cannot climb stairs into the cars. A half-bath (sink and toilet) was also added to the car.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nevadasouthern.com/Sub%20Pages/ada.html |title=ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) Wheelchair Accessible Car. |access-date=2017-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827214440/http://www.nevadasouthern.com/Sub%20Pages/ada.html |archive-date=2017-08-27 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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| || Head End Power (HEP) Car || || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 47.jpg|125px]] || || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || The Head End Power Car is a generator car. It was built because the locomotives of the Nevada Southern Railroad were designed to operate as yard switchers or with freight trains. They cannot generate enough electricity for lighting, air conditioning and public announcement systems. The Head End Power car was originally a boxcar car that was fitted with two diesel engines and generators, each capable of providing approximately 200&nbsp;kW of three-phase power at 480 volts.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nevadasouthern.com/Sub%20Pages/head_end.html |title=Head End Power (HEP) Car. |access-date=2017-08-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020094729/http://www.nevadasouthern.com/Sub%20Pages/head_end.html |archive-date=2017-10-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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▲| || Soft Top Open Air Car || || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 69.jpg|125px]] || || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || Soft top summer excursion car.
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| || Ballast spreader || early 1900's ||[[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 42.jpg|125px]] || || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || Jordan spreader. A piece of maintenance-of-way equipment used to shape ditches, spread ballast along the tracks, and as a snowplow; built by the [[Spreader (railroad)|Jordan Spreader Co]]., in the early 1900s.<ref name=":1" />
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| ''Ellsmere''
| Private Business Car || 1899
|[[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 21.jpg|125px]] || [[Wagner Palace Car Company]]
|{{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || On static display awaiting restoration.
|{{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || Built by the [[Wagner Palace Car Company]] of Buffalo, N.Y., in 1899, for the then president of the company, [[William Seward Webb|Dr. William Seward Webb]], son-in-law to [[William Henry Vanderbilt|William Vanderbilt]]. This was the last passenger car built by the Wagner company as it became a part of the [[Pullman Car Company]] on January 1, 1900. The car was considered one of the finest examples of private railway passenger cars of that era. This is an all-wood car with a partial steel underframe added in a major rebuild in ca 1915. The car traveled extensively to the west coast of the United States while used by Dr. Webb, normally traveling the [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway|Santa Fe Railroad]] route to the west from Chicago, IL., to Los Angeles and the West Coast. The interior prim paneling is of fine hardwoods including English oak, primavera, laurel, and mahogany. ''Ellsmere'' was purchased from the Pullman Company in approximately 1920 by the [[Missouri Pacific Railroad]] and used on its subsidiary the [[Texas & Pacific Railroad]] until 1960. The car was later acquired by museums in the central Texas area. The car was purchased by a Las Vegas casino owner and remained in his care for several years, being donated to the [[Nevada Southern Railway]] in 2002. The car is currently (2020) receiving an exterior restoration and interior work, with a planned re-exhibition by 2022.<ref name=":1" />
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| WP 449 || Steel body caboose || || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 54.jpg|125px]] || [[Union Pacific]] || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || Steel body caboose. It had been re-painted very poorly into its yellow livery after it had been acquired by [[Union Pacific]].
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| || Crane || || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 45.jpg|125px]] || || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || Old steam crane nicknamed 'The Crab,' formerly operated on the Wasatch Mountain Railway (modern day [[Heber Valley Railroad]]).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/151089709@N08/38036272416/in/photolist-ZX8QCh-U6u2fX-HFpGUX-ZUsoUm-TsqXYr-6dqxJD-UEhApN-dKRTGv-22RGG9r-22xY8B5-XLggFR-28c4vUs-E6zuqc-22xY9jC-HDXy2V-r93aM-Br7XbG-CXwe7a-ocTiik-cqrv1-cqrvZ-cqruQ-cqrvB-ocUJxu-S7Htib-6dtPBs-6dqvBz-79A5Cd-79wdx8-AVybta-6dpJBP-79wdng-bjHdky-6drWgN-6dtYqY-6dpLTk-6dqnWT-8gcZRw-8mqRAR-6dtRW3-6duxG5-avBf2k-yrUviH-6dpRNX-22xY8Rd-28c4xCN-22xYa4d-4ktN4i-os9Zhd-JxCRQm|title=New Ties on the Provo River Bridge|author=James Belmont|website=Flickr|date=April 1975|quote=A Wasatch Mountain Railway work train replaces ties on the deck of the Provo River bridge in Charleston, Utah in April of 1975. ...the crane is a steam powered derrick charged with performing the heavy lifting.}}</ref> Originally from the [[Tooele Valley Railway]] or the [[International Smelting and Refining Company]] in Tooele, Utah.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/cranes/steamcranes02.htm|title=Surviving Railway Steam Cranes of North America}}</ref>
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| || Track maintenance car || || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 46.jpg|125px]] || || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || Former Union Pacific passenger car became a maintenance of way car and was a part of the collection obtained from Heber City, UT.<ref name=":1" />
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| || Track maintenance cars || || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 43.jpg|125px]] || || {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || Former Union Pacific passenger car became maintenance of way car and was a part of the collection obtained from Heber City, UT.<ref name=":1" />
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|{{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || Originally built as a boxcar for the Western Pacific Railroad in 1916, was later modified for use as a stock car. Became a part of an excursion railroad in Utah, then sold to the Nevada State RailwayMuseum in 1993. The car was refurbished in 2020 and will be used as another open-air excursion car in the future.<ref name=":1" />
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| WP 449 || NoblemanSteel body caboose || 1844 || [[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 7754.jpg|125px]] || [[Western Pacific Railroad|Union Pacific]] (Ex-[[Western Pacific Railroad|Western Pacific]])|| {{Track gauge|4 ft 8.5 in}} || Boarded-upUndergoing passenger car of the [[:c:File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 78restoration.jpg|Red Carpet Line]] in open-air storage.
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== 7½ inch miniature railway ==
[[File:'Nevada Southern Railroad Museum' 04.jpg|thumb|{{Track gauge|7.5 in}} miniature railway]]
The museum hosts a dedicated group of approximately 15 volunteers who on the second and fourth Saturdays, July and August excepted, provide free rides on the {{Track gauge|7.5 in}} gauge railroad. The miniatures are 1/8th full size and accommodate children and adults easily. The layout is in a constant state of progressive evolution.
 
== See also ==
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