This is a former Chesapeake and Ohio switcher bought by the N&W. S1 number 274 was shot by my father as the two of us visited Shaffers Crossing as guests of the benevolent Norfolk and Western.
My father took this picture of J 601 sitting near the lubritorium with his old Voigtländer roll film camera. J 601 was posed with J 600 in an official N&W picture as they both celebrated two mill... (more)
I've just gotten around to scanning some of my father's negatives. He was shooting 127 roll film with an old Voigtländer while I was taking color slides on the trips that he would take me on.
After running around the train at Paradise, Norfolk and Western 475 leads the first excursion train of the day up the grade and back towards Strasburg.