Nevada Northern SD7 401 with an excursion that would run to Ely awaits departure, while three SP SD45T-2s head west with the OGPIL, the Ogden-Pittsburgh (California) loaded steel coil train. Cobre was the NN's interchange with the SP.
My dad and I rode the excursion that day from Cobre to East Ely and the next day, we had a ride up to the mines. and to the smelter. It was great. It was put on by Dick Reynolds' Great Western Tours.
This was 29 May 1982 for Cobre-East Ely. On 30 May we rode behind a KCC RS-3 to the mines and the smelter.
