Nevada Northern

Company History: The NN was established in 1905 by the Nevada Consolidated Copper Company and within a year had built a 166 mile line from their copper mine near Ely to a connection with the Central Pacific (later Southern Pacific) Overland Route in Cobre, Nevada. While the NN routinely switched cars around the southern end of the line where the mine and smelter were, the lion’s share of the mainline to Cobre (and a connection to the Western Pacific at Shafter) usually saw just two trains per week. Kennecott Copper (the successor to NCCCo.,) closed their mill east of Ely and the Nevada Northern in 1983. The southern end became the Nevada Northern Railway Museum. The line to Shafter and Cobre remains in place but is rarely used.

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