N&Ws: N&W steam engine 611 makes its journey up the Hagerstown line through the Shenandoah Valley as it will be interchanged with the Buckingham Branch for excursions. Seen here, the steam engine... (more)
Eastbound excursion more or less drifting after the tough pull into Bluefield. Photo by Jim Satterwhite, from my collection.
A westbound train of empties soars over the back road from Bluefield with an SD45-SLUG-SD45 combination in charge. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.
A westbound train of empties is diverging from the main with a SD45-SLUG-SD45 set leading a gigantic string of empties. Photo by Jim Satterwhite.
611 at dawn
611 in action!
Norfolk & Western 2-8-8-2 number 2175 leads a westbound 76 car freight near Elliston Virginia in 1950. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 1201 leads 80 cars westward through Roanoke Virginia in 1936. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
N&W train number 4, the Pocahontas, is seen near Bluefield West Virginia in 1950. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
Southern Railway GP38-2, 5128, shares the Pomona Yard servicing facility with N&W 611. 611 was laying over in Greensboro for an upcoming excursion.
Norfolk & Western 475 stomps out of Cherry Hill as it passes Norfolk & Western 611's train on the passing siding.
N&W 611 is departing Auville Yard in Iaeger West Virginia. She is easing over the trestle on the west leg of the wye to join the mainline.
N&W 2-8-8-2 2175 leads an eighty three car freight westward, near Salem Virginia, on July 11th 1953. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.
N&W 1218 departs Greensboro in spectacular fashion as she heads east into the morning sunrise.
Early morning departure...N&W 611 is leaving Bluefield Yard westbound on a ferry move to Portsmouth Ohio with a few added freight cars.