611 crosses the Dan River on her southbound run back to Spencer easing to her station stop in Danville with a crowd of photographers gathered on a parallel RR trestle turned rail trail.

After a very late departure from Lynchburg, N&W 611 rides the high iron again, as she leads the southbound Virginian up the grade at Gretna.

After a very strange and unexpected snowfall, blue skies open up again to greet the famed N&W 611, as she glides across the impressive trestle at Altavista, Virginia.

With the wind picking up heavily, N&W 611 continues to pull the Virginian north to Lynchburg, as the train sweeps into Reidsville, North Carolina.

The streamlined J-Class steam engine is seen thundering through the village of Thomasville, North Carolina, while a large crowd watches in amazement as the powerful locomotive works up the former ... (more)

Only a few miles into her first public excursion of the season, Norfolk and Western J-Class 611 eases through the north end of Lexington, in preparation to stop at Lake to meet a southbound.

611 approaches the NC/VA state line as it works hard to keep moving at speed near the top of the grade from the Dan River.

Excursion train 957 with 611, 8099, and 6133 slowly cross over the Catawba River on a cold spring morning.

N&W J class #611 slowly crosses the Catawba River in Catawba, NC on its way to Asheville, NC.

611 crosses over a local park after crossing the Roanoke River on the impressive Alta Vista trestle while a hundred or so railfans crowd onto the rickety sidewalk of the parallel Hwy 29 bridge.

611 smokes it up for the crowd that has gathered in rural Dry Fork.

611 heads north past the Greensboro Amtrak station.

The northbound "Virginian" excursion from Spencer to Lynchburg sweeps into the curve just north of the double crossover at Edna as the gigantic Lucky Strike factory looms large in the background.