Resurrection... Roanoke built Class J 611 in her second afterlife!

After "coming down the mountain" from Asheville via the loops, 611 continues her journey eastward back to Spencer, NC.

NW hump set working Bellevue hump

N&W #611 rumbles through the town of Christiansburg, VA passing the N&W depot originally built by the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad in 1868. Just behind that station, out of view, survives a 1906... (more)

A pair of Norfolk & Western geeps comes off of the turntable in the Baltimore & Ohio yard in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. Until 1975, the main Connellsville interchange for the N&W, and predecesso... (more)

An Unlikely Trio

The 1980 National Railway Historical Society convention was actually an international event, taking place in Toronto. A Southern Railway tradition was to run a sp... (more)

NS Train 958 with N&W 611 blasts over the Norfolk and Western lettered overpass spanning Cox Road, which is also known as Virginia State Highway 611 near Church Road on the NS Norfolk District. <... (more)

NS 956 breaks the bend at Villamont, VA, where the N&W bracket style signals are still standing one the former N&W Main Line to Lynchburg, which is now the NS Blue Ridge District. If you look c... (more)

After slowing for a signal, N&W 611 is again accelerating NS Train 957 towards Lynchburg through the town of Blackstone on the NS Norfolk District. It's time for another cinder shower.

Loco... (more)

N&W 611 has NS Train 958, "The Caviler" all stopped on the NS Norfolk District Old Line at the depot and is looking fine in the afternoon sunshine.

Locomotive: NW 611

6-14-15... (more)

Moments after Luke Lohrmeyer and I first lay eyes on Norfolk and Western 611, NS Train 957 stomps out of Crewe past MP 132 at restricted speed delayed in block after stopping to correct an issue w... (more)

After getting another short bath in a thunderstorm, NS Train 957 with N&W 611 on the point is thundering past the classic, and soon to be removed Norfolk & Western Bracket CPL Signal at CP Concord... (more)

After getting another short bath in a thunderstorm, NS Train 957 with N&W 611 on the point is thundering past the classic, and soon to be removed Norfolk & Western CPL Signal at CP Concord on the ... (more)

N&W 611 with NS Train 957 is making great time across the rolling Virginia countryside on the NS Blue Ridge District as thunderstorms fire along the horizon, and behind us.

Locomotive: NW 61... (more)

N&W 611 is now running as NS Train 957 as it brings its 21 car train around the curve and upgrade on the south leg of the wye off the Old Line at Poe.

The dust to the fireman's side of the e... (more)