Nostalgia & History > Nightime Elko Nevada 8-12-1992 cruise thru town

Please any TO members feel free to download, and add some kind of Las Vegas type music to this video, and re-post here, just for fun! I have many Ideas, but simply just dont have the tech or time to do that. Im sure many Elko Railroaders have memories of this.

Jim Baker
Riverside, CA

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Jim ...

Thanks for the blast back to the 1990's ...
I'm not a railroader, but I spent numerous nights in Elko as an exploration
geologist workin' on the Carlin Trend gold deposits back in the 1980's-90's ...
You caught Elko in one of those boom moments ... the giant polar bear at the Commercial Hotel is classic,
along with the shot of the Stockmen's Hotel/Casino ... d'em wer the daze ... there was a
vibrance back then unique to Elko ... you caught a lot of it ... Nevada is an unique place,
both geographically and temporally ... if ya haven't passed through Elko, ya need to take
a "cruise" on I-80 in Nevada ...

Odyssey
Evergreen, CO

Odyssey Wrote:
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> Jim ...
>
> Thanks for the blast back to the 1990's ...
> I'm not a railroader, but I spent numerous nights
> in Elko as an exploration
> geologist workin' on the Carlin Trend gold
> deposits back in the 1980's-90's ...
> You caught Elko in one of those boom moments ...
> the giant polar bear at the Commercial Hotel is
> classic,
> along with the shot of the Stockmen's Hotel/Casino
> ... d'em wer the daze ... there was a
> vibrance back then unique to Elko ... you caught a
> lot of it ... Nevada is an unique place,
> both geographically and temporally ... if ya
> haven't passed through Elko, ya need to take
> a "cruise" on I-80 in Nevada ...
>
> Odyssey
> Evergreen, CO

Thanks,glad you liked, I serviced both Stockman and Commercial Every Monday after midnight
(Pest control) and various other jobs later in the 90's after that,(Driving a cab, and then later with Armadillo Express driving train crews around) got to know the locals pretty well, most were good folks. Especially "Tex" Bellamy, the porter at Stockmans.

Even tried a job with a geologist crew, running long wires through the sagebrush to sensor pots in the ground, looking for iron ore deposits?
Didn't last long, very physical work!

Jim Baker
Riverside, CA