The Saturday morning run of N&W 611 excursions to Roanoke from Greensboro passes through the S-Curve at Hardy, nearing the home city of the J, Roanoke.

Ugh, Mondays.. Crew from Norfolk Southern begin clearing out a heavy pile of debris from a rockslide across the Kenova District mainline just west of the signals at Falls Branch following a... (more)

Three Norfolk & Western steam locomotives pause at Roanoke, VA on a rainy July evening. The photo was staged for participants in a Lerro Productions and Virginia Transportation photo shoot conduct... (more)

Coasting down hill coming off the 'Southern Loops' sees N&W #611 leading a Norfolk Southern excursion train on its way back to Spencer,NC from Asheville,NC.

A new day breaks on the famed Blue Ridge Grade as threatening clouds roll in from the west overhead the 1940's era CPL's which have sadly now been removed.

The Sunday morning run of the Greensboro to Roanoke N&W 611 excursion crosses the Kate's Creek Trestle just West of Goodview, about 30 minutes out of Roanoke on the old Virginian Railway.

Putting on a show coming out of a stop for an HEP problem, the Eastbound return trip of the N&W 611 Greensboro-Roanoke excursions passes over the high trestle just East of Hardy, crossing the Smit... (more)

DWARFED BY NIGHT One of only a small handful of US&S PL-4 dwarf signals, a favorite of the Norfolk & Western, lights up the ballast at Cloverdale just as it has for nearly eight decades.

The eastbound return leg of the "Roanoker" crosses the high trestle at Kate's Creek near Goodview Virginia on a cool Spring afternoon in the Commonwealth.

The J passes The Chair in downtown Thomasville, NC, with NS train number 955, deadheading from Spencer to Greensboro.

With a volcanic smoke plume, N&W 611 pounds through Harrisburg, leading the northbound return portion of a round trip excursion between Spencer and Charlotte, NC. No diesel assist on today’s rel... (more)

N&W 611 rolls down the former Southern Railway mainline, leading the southbound return portion of an excursion between Spencer, NC and Lynchburg, VA. Behind the auxiliary water car, NS SD40-2 6110... (more)

The southbound return leg of "The Virginian" crosses the high trestle across the Big Otter river near Evington (located between Altavista and Lynchburg) on a crystal clear day in the Vir... (more)

The thunder of Class J 611 breaks the silence of a graveyard in Salisbury as a warm sunlight covers the gravestones.

Norfolk & Western 611 leads the southbound Charlotte Special out of the yard in Spencer and through Salisbury Wye on its way toward the Queen City