It was the search for stars that brought me to the town of Ely on a weekend in May. A friend and I had booked tickets for the Nevada Northern Railway, which runs on select summer evenings from mid-May ...

While the bright city lights illuminate the night skies over Las Vegas, in the evening something magical happens in the town of Ely. “We’ve got the darkest skies in the US," Dr. Jerri-Lynn ...

Although trains have become an outmoded form of public transportation in much of the United States, riding the rails remains near the top of our to-do list. Thus, a recent drive across central Nevada ...

Thus, a recent drive across central Nevada included a mandatory visit to Ely’s Nevada Northern Railway Museum. Ely was one of numerous mining towns that in the early 1900s benefited from short-line ...