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This leg of the tour tales us from Yosemite, via Tioga Pass and Mono Lake, to Carson City, Virginia City, Reno/Sparks, and on to Donner Pass into California.

Nevada State Railroad Museum, Carson City, NV
Standard gauge steam train ride and tour of facilities. The grounds and museum are impeccable, but indoor lighting doesn't allow good photos.
http://www.nsrm-friends.org/

Virginia and Truckee Railroad, Virginia City, NV
Standard gauge diesel train ride (2-8-0 steamer was being rebuilt) and tour of old-west buildings and mining operations. Short ride through 4 tunnels, past several abandoned Comstock silver mines, on the right of way first cleared in 1868. Virginia City is a tourist trap of the first kind and has no other purpose today. http://onlinenevada.org/virginia_and_truckee_railroad
 

Southern Pacific Railroad, Reno / Sparks / Reno Junction, NV
Photo Op at standard gauge display, Sparks City Park en route to Reno Junction, Hawley, and Portola.

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E. R. (Ross) Crain, P.Eng. is a Consulting Petrophysicist and a Professional Engineer with over 40 years of experience in reservoir description, petrophysical analysis, and management. He has been a specialist in the integration of well log analysis and petrophysics with geophysical, geological, engineering, and simulation phases of oil and gas exploration and exploitation, with widespread Canadian and Overseas experience.

"I am a life-long model railroader and have modeled in O27, HO, HOn3, and N Scales. Failing eyesight brought me to G Scale. My father started me in model railroading as a tiny tot in 1944 - he scratch built his first locomotive in 1940, the year I was born, and I still have this loco on my mantle-piece. I am a Life Member (#517) of NMRA, a member of the Rocky Mountain Garden Railroaders (Calgary, Alberta), and have toured a lot of model railways, railway shows, and garden railways. I have never seen a model railway I didn’t like. An extensive library of railway magazines and books, covering topics that appeal to me, sit behind my office desk, ready to be put to use at a moments notice. I hope these pages can communicate to you some of my accumulated experience, my successes and failures, and my love of model railways."