N&W Class Y6A 2156 entering the Virginia Museum of Transportation

Having barely slipped through the gate onto the Virginia Museum of Transportation's property- veteran steam program member Bobby Saxtan, in the high visibility vest, focuses on the large Y6a negot... (more)

After 56 year wait and a long trip from St. Louis, the N&W Y6a #2156 is finally reunited with Class J #611 and Class A #1218.

Photographer: -Norman Blackwood- from the original Kodachrome 35mm slide. This is one of three N&W Y6 class engines (one Y6a and two Y6b's) that languished into the mid 1970's in Roanoke. It i... (more)

Norfolk and Western Y6a #2156 shows some articulation as it leans into the curve exiting the east portal of Welch Tunnel in Welch, West Virginia. Norfolk Southern train 956 completed the repositi... (more)

Back on Home Rails... N&W 2156 Y6a 2-8-8-2 rides on home rails on it's way to Roanoke on loan to the Virginia Museum of Transportation.

Along the journey from St Louis to Roanoke, Norfolk and Western Y6a #2156 was able to greet an old friend: The coaling tower at Prichard, West Virginia. If these two relics could talk, they could... (more)

Norfolk and Western Y6a #2156 is back on home rails at Elmwood, Ohio. 2156 is being moved by Norfolk Southern train 956 from the St Louis Museum of Transportation for long term loan to the Virgin... (more)

Fans on the west end of the 7107 foot new Elkhorn tunnel helped clear engine exhaust ahead of slow moving east-bound trains. N&W also maintained ventilation fans on the single-track Cowan tunnel,... (more)

The new Elkhorn line had been in service only six years. Working hard with clear stack, sanders and rail-washer working, N&W 2198 is about to enter Elkhorn Tunnel. Sister 2181 is pushing on the re... (more)

View from under coal wharf area at Shaffers Crossing. Norfolk and Western Y6a 2157, and Class A 1241 await their turn to take on coal.

Norfolk and Western Y6b is Preparing to take on coal at Shaffer's Crossing. GP9 #729 is sitting on the opposite track.

Photographer- unknown- from my personal collection. 35mm Anscochrome slide. July 11, 1959 finds Y6b 2174 performing a photo run by at the giant Trace Fork viaduct on the Dry Fork Branch of the ... (more)

Photographer- Clark Frazier- from my personal collection. Early June 1959 finds Y6a 2158 awaiting her fate at the hands of the ivory hunters. Sister 2156, the sole remaining Y6a resides at the... (more)

Ready for the big move. NW Y6a #2156 rests out its final week at the Museum of Transportation on a beautiful fall morning. Sometime very soon, it will depart the museum for a long trip to t... (more)