Norfolk & Western #611 charges over the grade at Blue Ridge, VA passing a set of CPL signals with a passenger extra en route to Lynchburg, VA

Norfolk & Western No. 611 barrels east in a Railroad: Norfolk & Western
Locomotive: Steam 4-8-4
Location: Elliston, Virginia, USA
Locomotive #: NW 611
Train ID: NS 958
Photo Date: July 03, 2015

N&W J 611 blasts west through the out skirts of Salem, VA in Wabun, Va on its way to Walton, VA where they will turn on the wye to return to Roanoke, VA.

N&W 611 putting on a show on a damp morning as she forces herself up the grade headed east through Blue Ridge, VA. 611 will make her way to Lynchburg, VA and head back to Roanoke, VA for the new t... (more)

The Norfolk and Western J Class No. 611 slowly steams past several railfans as she approaches the outer limits of the Lynchburg yard to take on some water and continue her inaugural journey back h... (more)

After running hard from Roanoke to Lynchburg that morning, N&W 611 simmers on the mainline in front of the old N&W passenger station now the O. Winston Link museum while crowds arrive to see her ... (more)

Rods Down! The 611 poses next to the First Responder engine in the classic rods down position at Spencer during the Fired Up photo shoot.

N&W Class J 611 charges under the old coaling tower at Vicker, VA headed for Roanoke.

Sheer skill, power and might prevail over gravity and wet rail as 611 begins to climb back up to track speed after nearly stalling just a few hundred yards back on the unforgiving Christiansburg M... (more)

N&W 611 leads an excursion eastward to Lynchburg, drifting downgrade here at Villamont, VA under an impressive plume of steam and smoke.

Having finished a set of shots in the roundhouse 611 is back on the turntable and backing her way off to the next photo location.

611 bangs through the crossing at Concord, VA on her last leg of two round trips between Lynchburg and Petersburg, 06/13 & 06/14 2015. Soon she'll be tied down in Lynchburg for the night.

N&W 611 puts on a show as she works hard to climb the Christiansburg grade.

What a scene, what a day! Davis Strench gets all the credit of scoping out vantage points on this chase, obtaining permission from the farmer seen waving to the train by the fence well in advance... (more)