Labor Day weekend marked the N&W 611's return to service for 2018 following off-season repair work. In coordination with the North Carolina Transportation Museum, the long holiday weekend offered ... (more)
Night scene as the N&W 611 sits at Barber Junction station in Spencer, NC.
N&W 1218 is crossing the Cumberland River Bridge at Burnside, KY
After a quick stop in Old Fort to check for overheating equipment from its trip down the Southern Loops, 611 heads out of the mountains for the down hill run back to Spencer.
475 pulls the 5 o'clock train westbound back to East Strasburg.
611 drifts east.
Making the grade Westbound with young boys watching the 611 put on a show.
Pan view of the 1218 getting underway after an inspection stop at Bedford.
The awesome exhaust of Class A No. 1218 rockets skyward as the throttle is opened after exiting Montgomery Tunnel.
The 1218 is climbing the Blue Ridge grade after its first weekend of public excursions in 1987.
N&W SD7 2349 sits on display in Bellevue.
An N&W SD7 rests on display in Bellevue, OH.
In its second day of public excursion service, the 1218 is coming from Shaffer's Crossing to couple ahead of a Lynchburg-bound special.
NW Class A No. 1218 is headed toward the Radford wye from Roanoke, after a morning round-trip from Roanoke to Lynchburg. Locals and casual railfans between the gauge are flinching from the awesom... (more)
