N&W 611 takes during a brief pause between museum train runs. The small American flags are a nice touch as the world remembers the terrible morning of September 11, 2001 some 15 years ago.

N&W 611 pulls through the switch at the north end of the NCTM property and heads toward the roundhouse to take a quick spin on the turntable and rest for the night.

On a late summer afternoon in the late 1950s, the daily passenger train pulls up to the semaphore displaying a stop aspect. The train will unload before heading south to its final destination. In ... (more)

This may be one of my favorite photos from yesterday. Is 611 on the turntable at the NCTM and this is a shot I have been trying to get for a while and it's just not worked out. Photo taken on 9-10... (more)

I thank it's fitting that 611 is flying american flags as we remember 9/11 15 years ago today. Seen here is 611 about to pull into the station while it is pulling the NCTM trains. Photo taken on 9... (more)

611 has arrived at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer NC safe and sound after a trip from the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke VA

The inbound 1989 NRHS convention special with the N&W 611 passes a ballast train south of Charlottesville. No. 3988 was built by GE for the Southern Railway in January, 1979.

611 has arrived at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer NC safe and sound after a trip from the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke VA

N&W Class J 611 on a ferry move from the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke VA to the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer NC

N&W Class J 611 on a ferry move from the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke VA to the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer NC

N&W Class J 611 on a ferry move from the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke VA to the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer NC

N&W Class J 611 on a ferry move from the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke VA to the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer NC.

N&W Class J 611 on a ferry move from the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke VA to the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer NC.

Norfolk and Western class J number 611 glides across the Roanoke River in Altavista, Virginia, with NS train number 958, deadheading from Spencer to Roanoke.

Norfolk and Western class J number 611 rolls by the CPL signal at Bedford, Virginia, with NS train number 958 on a deadhead move from Spencer to Roanoke.