More Scenes around the Nevada State Railway Museum ~ Saturday, August 06, 2016

There's quite a lot to see at the NSRM. There are several pieces of original Virginia & Truckee rolling stock:

The NSRM has another operating "doodlebug", from the Tuscon, Cornelia, and Gila Bend. It was in the shops and I only got a shot through a window, but you can read about it here.

Sometimes the not-yet-restored (or even hopeless) items around museums are interesting too, such as this industrial critter, and the remains of a railtruck or railbus on a flatcar:

They have Nevada's Merci Train car on display. A few years ago we saw Hawai'i's.

I don't know what the story of this small train-mounted cannon is. It looks just like the one in Buster Keaton's The General.