NW 611 getting cleaned and shined up for its excursion run.

NC Transportation Museum's 1959 Edsel poses next to the famous locomotive, nine years her elder during lunch at the 2016 Fired Up photo charter.

NW 611 passes the NS 911 Honoring our First Responders locomotive pulling a short frieght on the museum track.

The Southern Railway heritage unit gets its wash while 611 sits on the track beside him.

As the crews of Norfolk & Western 611 prepare her for her first weekend of excursions of the 2016 season, visitors (including myself) get a chance to view the Queen of Steam up close. It's quite a... (more)

N&W J Class 611 storms north crossing the Yadkin River north of Spencer, NC just after sunrise on April 9, 2016 on their northbound trip to Lynchburg, Virginia.

As soon as we pull up to Five Row, 154 pulls slowly by with a high and wide of this wrecked GEVO from a head on collision in GA.

Steam crew member John Otey watches 611 closely as the turntable gets lined up so that the big J can pull into the Bob Julian roundhouse during Jim Wrinn's "Fired Up!" photo charter last... (more)

NS 3295 shoves a tie train south to drop ties along the single track between CP "Reid" and CP "North Kannapolis."

One of the the first photos I had made of N&W 611 under steam since June of 1986. This was for Jim Wrinn's "Fired Up!" photo charter at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC. ... (more)

The morning of May 29, 2015 found virtually no one around at Spencer with the exception of the steam crew preparing 611 for the next day's triumphant journey to her birthplace of Roanoke, Virginia... (more)

Steam, old cars and trucks, and old signals... What more could you ask for?

Steam, stations, and semaphores... Even in a reenacted scene still a beautiful sight to behold.

N&W 611 drifts past the previous days mainline consist during a photo charter at the N.C. Transportation Museum. The days antics with 611 didn't compare with her mainline performances the two prev... (more)

611 may be the "Queen of Steam" but in the confines of the yard where she can't stretch her legs the better show comes from lil' ol' 126 who could actually open the throttle and work a b... (more)