Unfortunately, the ride will only be on the museum's short demonstration track. It would be great if they could somehow arrange to operate it on the nearby restored Virginia & Truckee Railroad. Alas, both the museum and the V&T are isolated trackage and any movement of rail equipment between them has to be via road.

The original V&T ran from a mainline connection at Reno to Carson City and from there east to Virginia City (and also south to Minden). The train station in Reno had V&T tracks to the south of the Southern Pacific line on the north side of the station, according to pictures I've seen at the rebuilt Amtrak station. (There was also a separate station for the Nevada-California-Oregon Railroad; the station building still exists under another use, and Lisa and I have walked by it during several of our stays in Reno.)