Norfolk & Western 611 starts its excursion train out of Cherry Hill.

N&W 611, the last remaining Class J Norfolk & Western 4-8-4, leads one of the hourly Strasburg Railroad trains back to Strasburg, seen here accelerating past the Cherry Crest Adventure Farm after ... (more)

N&W 611, the last remaining Class J Norfolk & Western 4-8-4, pauses at the Strasburg Railroad's main station, affording this profile of its nose, complete with builder's plate.

N&W 611, the last remaining Class J Norfolk & Western 4-8-4, leads one of the hourly Strasburg Railroad trains back to Strasburg, seen here pausing at Groff's Grove and preparing to make a meet wi... (more)

N&W 611, the last remaining Class J Norfolk & Western 4-8-4, leads one of the hourly Strasburg Railroad trains out of Strasburg tender forward, seen here passing a field while approaching Esbensha... (more)

N&W 611, the last remaining Class J Norfolk & Western 4-8-4, leads one of the hourly Strasburg Railroad trains back to Strasburg, seen here passing a row of American flags on display outside the R... (more)

Norfolk & Western 611 passes a 1958 Chevy Impala at Esbenshade.

Curtain Call

Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 611 makes its final approach to Esbenshade Road as power for a Strasburg Rail Road train. It will soon be headed back to its owners, the Virg... (more)

Norfolk & Western 611 leads its passenger train up the grade towards Carpenters on its 73rd Birthday. Happy Birthday, 611.

Norfolk & Western 611 leads NS excursion train 956 by the Montvale signals

Norfolk & Western Class J 611 at the North Carolina Transportation Museum

West Virginia State Route 112 follows the former Norfolk & Western right-of-Way, now Norfolk Southern, from Oakvale WV to Ingleside WV, offering many photo opportunities along the way. Here N&W 61... (more)

A Bristol-Walton-Bristol excursion is on the return leg and the chill in the air makes for gorgeous plumes.

In the Marion area Norfolk & Western (as I will always think of it) wiggles through the narrow, winding confines of the valley of the Middle Fork of the Holston River the abandons the river for th... (more)

Whooda thunk it. N&W on C&O. Racing EB with an excursion. Balcony (long O, locally)Falls is the site of a wye and a connecting line to the N&W's Shenandoah Line which actually crosses the C&O a... (more)