Having just completed the first half of their round trip from Spencer to Asheville, NW 611 and the NS Southern Heritage unit turns the train on the wye. It's likely that this was the last passenge... (more)
What a show! Battling the rain and Christiansburg grade, westbound 1218 claws her way onward and upward.
Just after passing Big Spring Mill N&W 611 highballs West with the "Pocahontas" headed for Walton and return to Roanoke.
N&W 611 making a spectacular exit westbound from Montgomery Tunnel, surely worth the long wait to secure a good spot at this tight location. She works upgrade here, making big smoke, perhaps aided... (more)
Mr. Young started working in 1944 in the track gang. He said his favorite locomotive was the J. He watches and waves at passengers with his 1968 Chevy Impala present.
With a volcanic smoke plume, N&W 611 pounds through Harrisburg, leading the northbound return portion of a round trip excursion between Spencer and Charlotte, NC. No diesel assist on today’s rel... (more)
N&W 611 rolls down the former Southern Railway mainline, leading the southbound return portion of an excursion between Spencer, NC and Lynchburg, VA. Behind the auxiliary water car, NS SD40-2 6110... (more)
Charging up the Blue Ridge Grade, NW 611 is working hard with the fully loaded "Powhatan Arrow" bound for Lynchburg and return to Roanoke. The CPL signals in this image are original NW s... (more)
1218 sails across the trestle at Altavista on her way north to Lynchburg.
1218 is eastbound at Pearisburg, VA in route from Bluefield to Roanoke with a coal train.
N&W Class J 4-8-4 611 stretches its legs on the 1:30pm museum train at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer NC
N&W Class J 4-8-4 611 stretches its legs on the 11:30am museum train at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer NC
611 simmers at the Shaffers Crossing Roundhouse.
N&W 611 puts on quite a show as it works through the countryside near Markham, VA on June 4, 2016.
1218 has just exited the 213 ft long Point Tunnel. This is the first of many tunnels she will pass through as she climbs the famous Southern Loops to Asheville, NC.