Even on the third straight day of excursions, the 611 doesn't fail to draw a crowd! Hundreds of people line the tracks clear through the yard, and on both sides of the street behind me.
On the return to Roanoke, 611 splits the CPL's at Webster, VA. Soon the westbound Powhatan Arrow will be descending into Roanoke after a third and final assault on Blue Ridge Summit.
The more time I spend along the Norfolk and Western in Virginia, the more I absolutely fall in love with it. Shots like this abound- you just need to know where to look. An incident with the own... (more)
Independence Day, 1955 or 2015? You decide. N&W Class J #611 accelerates out of Vicker, VA with the eastbound Pelican. A lineside dog is not impressed by the J's throaty whistle sounding for th... (more)
A quiet afternoon in Shawsville, VA is interrupted by the thundering exhaust of N&W 611 working hard to climb Christiansburg Mountain, where three generations of farmers are hard at work picking b... (more)
The afternoon trip to Walton departs downtown Roanoke as a crowd of onlookers watch.
The CPL's are dying.
The Color Position Lights, which safely guarded untold thousand of trains and their crews in their lifetime were installed by the Norfolk & Western railroad in the 1960's b... (more)
Steam locomotives? Cabooses? Lordy, Roanoke IS Heaven!
Let it shine! Members of the Fire-up 611 Crew take advantage of a little down-time to wipe away a morning's worth of accumulated soot on their big Northern, in preparation for an afternoon ... (more)
Norfolk and Western class J number 611 leads the eastbound "Pelican" excursion train downgrade at Shawsville, Virginia, returning to Roanoke with a full train of passengers on July 4, 20... (more)
N&W 611 turns her train on the wye in downtown Roanoke immediately following her arrival from an all day ferry move beginning at Spencer, NC. She brought 13 cars along for the ride, including her ... (more)
After turning on the wye at Radford N&W 611 passes under the old coaling dock at Vicker, VA.
N&W 611 heads heads through the Blue Ridge Mountains with a Roanoke to Lynchburg round trip excursion on 7/3/2015
N&W 611 makes good speed westbound as it leaves Roanoke behind and takes aim for Radford.
