Hall of Fame

A native of Los Angeles, California, Steve attended Hollywood High Schoool, Los Angeles City College and attended classes at Art Center College of Design. He launched into a career as a professional photographer in 1979. Much of his work including product photography and set photography including long term work for “Jeopardy” with Alex Trebek and […]

Born April 19, 1934 in Beaver, Utah, Barlow attended Cedar High School where he served as the business manager for the school year book and performed in theater and sports. He married his wife Virginia on June 28, 1952 and together they would have five children. He moved to Ely where he opened his own

Born in Lund, Nevada on April 7, 1921, T.J. Lani moved to Ely first gaining work as an emergency fireman around 1941 and was promoted to a regular fireman in 1942. He left to serve in the Navy for World War 2 before returning to the NNRy. Working his way up he eventually became a

A native of Elko, Nevada, Percy was born to Quincy and Mary Hull on June 19, 1886. An early Ely pioneer, Quincy moved the family to Ely and was appointed the town’s second postmaster. In 1909 Percy was working in Salt Lake when he applied for a clerk position with the NNRy. Moving back to

Loreto “Jumbo” Labate waws born in Italy on August 4, 1896 and immigrated to the United States at the age of 16 arriving in Boston,Massachusetts. He made his way west spending some time in Ogden,Utah. His first railroad job was with the Southern Pacific as a section man. He arrived in Ely and got a

George Frederick Lake | Master Mechanic | Ca 1920s – 1958 Born to John and Mary Bell Lake in the railroad town of Evanston, Wyoming on the Union Pacific transcontinental corridor, the Lake Brothers were surrounded by the railroad. This would have a large impact on the entire family as all seven brothers in the

A native of Elko, Nevada born August 11, 1923, J.P. Whitmore arrived in White Pine County as a child where he would live until he passed away on January 11, 1979. He first worked at the mine in 1941 as an electrician. In 1950 he married Arva who was a secretary in the mine offices.

Born in Oakley, Idaho on January 5, 1910, H.M. Peterson only began a railroading career upon the completion of his college education in Salt Lake City, UT when the Western Pacific offered more pay that other job offers. He worked between Utah and California eventually working under H.J. Beem. When Beem was approached to take

Born in Upper Sandusky, Ohio on December 21, 1848, T.J. Duddleson’s railroad career began at the young age of 13 when he took over as fireman on a wood-burning locomotive when the grown man in the job left to fight in the Civil War. Traveling west he worked for the D&RG in Coloardo and Utah

Leaving his mark not only on the NNRy, but the entire mining industry, Daniel C. Jacking has been remembered as the “father of open-pit mining” after introducing open-cut copper mining at Bingham, Utah and demonstrating that the mining of low-grade ores could be economically profitable. The porphyry copper district near Ruth could not have been