The streamlined J-Class steam engine is seen thundering through the village of Thomasville, North Carolina, while a large crowd watches in amazement as the powerful locomotive works up the former ... (more)

Only a few miles into her first public excursion of the season, Norfolk and Western J-Class 611 eases through the north end of Lexington, in preparation to stop at Lake to meet a southbound.

611 approaches the NC/VA state line as it works hard to keep moving at speed near the top of the grade from the Dan River.

Excursion train 957 with 611, 8099, and 6133 slowly cross over the Catawba River on a cold spring morning.

N&W J class #611 slowly crosses the Catawba River in Catawba, NC on its way to Asheville, NC.

611 crosses over a local park after crossing the Roanoke River on the impressive Alta Vista trestle while a hundred or so railfans crowd onto the rickety sidewalk of the parallel Hwy 29 bridge.

611 smokes it up for the crowd that has gathered in rural Dry Fork.

611 heads north past the Greensboro Amtrak station.

The northbound "Virginian" excursion from Spencer to Lynchburg sweeps into the curve just north of the double crossover at Edna as the gigantic Lucky Strike factory looms large in the background.

With the Southern GEVO shoving its fancy hood ornament upgrade at Durmid, the Spencer-Lynchburg round-trip Virginian gets out of town following a very late departure. The Southern signals s... (more)

The southbound Virginian flies by the cemetery in Gretna, VA. Fittingly, a headstone from the Power family stands in the foreground, as the remarkably powerful J-Class 611 gallops upgrade o... (more)

With the sun setting in the evening sky, NW 611 glides under the Southern signal bridge at Danville

NW 611 splits the intermediate signals at Lawyers Station