The Friends of the Nevada State Railroad Museum (NSRM)
provides resources and services for the Museum, including fund raising, advocacy, and volunteer work ranging from visitor service to restoration and operation of the equipment in its collection.
Of Interest
Extreme Trains
On Tuesday, November 11, History Channel premiered
the first episode of an eight part series on Extreme Trains. Matt Bown, a train conductor from central Maine,
has a dream -- to ride the biggest, fastest, most awesome locomotives in America and he starts out with a ride
through the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania on a coal train. Along the way, we learn a bit about how coal
is mined, a lot about how it is loaded, the history of the Johnstown Flood, how difficult it is to shoot the
infamous Horseshoe Curve and how the Nazis planned to blow it up during World War II. Future episodes will
feature the Amtrak Acela, the nation's fastest train that can reach 150 mph on its run from Washington to Boston,
and a freight train that travels from the port of Los Angeles to Dallas hauling goods from the Far East to
stores across the country.
The first episode repeats on Sunday and Monday in case you missed it. Check the Extreme Trains site for the schedule of that episode and all future episodes.
Carson City Events
Find out what’s going on in the area
from the
Capital City Arts Initiative
(CCAI) web log and
website. The web log features arts
and culture news around town, in northern Nevada, throughout the nation and
around the world. Keep current with their
calendar of
events and their newsletter, the
CCAI News Flash .
Local Exhibits
Comstock History Center, Virginia City
Now through April 2009
Beebe & Clegg on the Comstock
The
Comstock History Center in Virginia City, in cooperation with the Center of
Railroad Photography and Art of Madison, WI, presents photographs and ephemera
by two of the best known names in the field of railroad photography and history:
Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg.
Beebe & Clegg on the Comstock is on display in the main exhibit hall at the Comstock History Center, 20 North “E” Street (the corner of Union and "E" Streets) in Virginia City and can be reached at (775) 847-0419. The Center is open to the public Thursday through Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission is free.
For more information, please call Bert Bedeau at the Center, (775)847-0281 or visit the Department of Nevada Cultural Affairs website.
The Friends at work
Just what do the Friends do? Just about everything from being the steam train
crew to giving tours, from selling tickets to working at the Museum store.
Take a look
History Happens Project
Support
the museum
Buy a commemorative brick & honor a loved one
What's Happening at the Museum
Ride the Rails after Thanksgiving
Friday, November 28 and Saturday, November 29
10am to 4pm at the Museum depot
We're looking forward to seeing you there
Wednesday Night Program
December 10, 7pm
Reno's Big Gamble
Trains, gambling, and quickie divorces, what more could you want in a Wednesday night program?
The Museum welcomes Alicia Barber, visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada, Reno, member Reno's Historical Resources Committee, a director of Preserve Nevada, and the author of Reno's Big Gamble: Image and Reputation in the Biggest Little City. Come and see her reveal Reno's transformation from little backward railroad town to Sin Central, otherwise known as The Biggest Little City in the World. Listen to her cautionary tale of its boom to bust in the 1970s, and how it is reviving today as a cultural and recreational tourist destination. A question and answer session follows her presentation. You may purchase her book and have her personally inscribe it after the program.
For more information, please call the Museum,(775) 687-6954.
HO Model Railroad
Museum
volunteers are building an HO scale railroad for permanent exhibit at the Museum
that shows the changing nature of Nevada's railroads during the 20th century,
both technologically and in terms of their impact on the State's economy.
Friends and other volunteers operate trains on weekends and group-tour days. At other times a push-button enables visitors to operate a train on demand.
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