This is the third posting on our VO-1000 from today. This is the first time in 40 that the locomotive has been blue carded and is ready for service! So yes we are excited! Watch the exhaust as she goes by, a straight 8! Facebook won't allow us to do video and pictures in the same post. HATS OFF to the NN Ry Shop! After 40 years, our 1942 Baldwin VO-1000 was blue carded today! A blue card is similar to license and registration on an automobile. The blue card means Locomotive 801 is operational fo

She’s alive! Locomotive 801 because of the support of all of our members. Thanks to all of our members who supported our efforts on bringing Locomotive 801 back to life! Locomotive 801 was hidden away in the Nevada Northern Railway engine house. She is another one of our rare locomotive that has been waiting for her chance to run again. Locomotive 801 is a VO-1000 diesel-electric switcher that was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in December 1942. We figure the last time she was in operatio