The "Queen of the Kudzu", N&W J Class #611 brings NS Train 957 west down the NS Blue Ridge District pulling the 21 car "Cavalier" back to Lynchburg on the return leg of a round... (more)

Moments after my friend Luke Lohrmeyer and I first laid eyes on Norfolk and Western 611, NS Train 957 stomps out of Massie past MP 132 at restricted speed delayed in block after stopping to correc... (more)

Stalking the path of the former Virginian Railroad, Norfolk & Western 611 lines the Roanoke River with a trail of steam bearing a resemblance to a stream of cotton as the J Class works south throu... (more)

611 is making light work of her short consist as she rolls through High Point on her way to Spencer.

N&W Class J 4-8-4 611 on a ferry move from the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke VA to the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer NC.

N&W Class J 4-8-4 611 on a ferry move from the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke VA to the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer NC. The CSX Dash 8 had a experienced a tractio... (more)

The Class J 611 sits in the Bob Julian roundhouse getting some touch ups before her 2017 excursion schedule begins!

N&W 611 passes the classic Southern Railway signals at milepost 239.8 in Danville, VA on its way to the NC Transportation Museum in Spencer for its annual inspection.

N&W class J 611 has arrived in Toccoa with the excursion from Atlanta. Passengers will have a couple of hours to roam around the north Georgia town while the locomotive and train are turned on the... (more)

Roanoke's finest hustles through the High Point Amtrak station ahead of the incoming winter storm. The arctic blast brought out some beautiful plumes of smoke from the sleek J.

Norfolk & Western 611 flies underneath the Southern Railway signal bridge at Smothers on the Danville District of the Piedmont Division. The 1950 Class J is making light work of a water tender, tw... (more)

After holding for 214, 158, and 36Q at the south end of the double track, 611 resumes the ferry move from Roanoke to Spencer at this location just south of Chatham.

NW 611 steams through Goodview, Virginia, on a ferry run to Spencer from Roanoke. As Graham Claytor said, "It is a good thing to let another generation know what a steam locomotive is".

Norfolk and Western 611 shoves up the hill out of the Virginia Museum Transportation in Roanoke, ready for a ferry move to Spencer as NS train number 956, on a cold January 6, 2017 morning.

Making its inaugural run of 2017, Norfolk and Western 611 marches towards Spencer, NC for its annual inspection prior to a busy excursion season. Following the old Virginian route between Roanoke ... (more)