By Ron Eland Boulder City Review
September 25, 2026 - 2:59 pm
On the time the Nevada State Railroad Museum successful Boulder City celebrated its 35th anniversary, hundreds turned retired for the expansive opening of the museum’s caller 9,000-square-foot visitant center.
Dan Thielen, head of the Nevada Division of Museums and History, was 1 of respective impermanent speakers astatine the Sept. 19 event, which besides included Lt. Gov. Stavros Anthony, Rep. Dina Titus and Christopher MacMahon, the museum’s director.
“We are perfectly delighted to person you present to observe this singular milestone,” Thielen said. “There are galore radical who helped crook this imagination into a reality. We judge museums bring beauty, value, stableness and practice to our communities.”
Anthony, who is seat of the Nevada Tourism Commission, has made a constituent to sojourn galore taste institutions passim the state, to the constituent that Thielen joked that he’s earned capable depository points for a tote bag.
“I thought there’d beryllium 10 oregon 15 radical showing up today,” said Anthony. “Obviously trains and railroads are live and good present successful Nevada. This is the opening of a caller section successful however we archer the communicative of Nevada.”
The visitant halfway includes a assortment of exhibits that analyse however railroads helped facilitate mining booms successful Nevada, the railroads that built Hoover Dam and the top-secret Jackass & Western Railroad that operated astatine the Nevada National Security Site. There is besides a depository store, a autobus loading area, a invited plaza and a railroad rider loading area.
The visitant halfway task came with a terms tag of $23 cardinal and was paid for by Conserve Nevada bonds. A aboriginal grounds hallway connected the spot is estimated astatine astir $88 million.
Titus, whose territory includes Boulder City, praised the efforts of the galore who person been discussing the visitant halfway for years and person present seen it travel to fruition.
“This is simply a task that brings unneurotic nationalist money, authorities efforts, section endeavors and the enactment of volunteers,” she said. “It genuinely is 1 that everybody has cooperated connected and volition present get to bask the payment of. This railroad depository and visitant halfway volition not conscionable invited tourists to Boulder City but it volition assistance children larn astir the past of our authorities and the relation railroads played passim that history.”
Following the ribbon cutting, and portion looking astatine the assorted displays, Anthony stopped to speech astir Nevada’s ongoing tendency to diversify its economy. While gaming volition besides beryllium the king of the hill, helium said outdoor tourism is gaining ground.
“Let’s look it, Las Vegas is the superior of the satellite erstwhile it comes to gaming, amusement and restaurants and present we’re the sports superior of the world. That is simply a immense portion of our economy,” helium said. “Las Vegas and Nevada are live and well, but it’s my occupation arsenic president of the Nevada Tourism Commission to effort and get radical retired into the remainder of Nevada.”
The pursuing day, MacMahon was asked astir his thoughts connected however things went astatine the authoritative opening.
“We had astir 1,000 guests implicit the people of the day, which shows conscionable however overmuch the assemblage cares astir taste institutions similar ours,” MacMahon said.
Contact Ron Eland astatine reland@bouldercityreview.com.
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