The C&O 614 with twelve cars on a photo runby, just after climbing Seventeen Mile Grade in the late summer of 1981

N&W J Class Nº611 is at Spencer, North Carolina shortly before the trip to Ashville on the morning of April 10, 2016.

Heading to the Washington Central, SP 4449 rolls east on Burlington Northern's former SP&S mainline.

N&W J 611 climbs the Loops near Old Fort, North Carolina during it's April 10, 2016 trip to Ashville.

N&W 611 is at Ashville, North Carolina before starting the trip back to Spencer as NS 958 on April 10, 2016. Jared Blocker and many others took the opportunity to get up close to the only remaini... (more)

After arriving in Denver, 844 and this years Cheyenne Frontier Days Train wyed, before heading down the Belt Line Connection to North Yard. Here the train is crossing over the S. Platte River on t... (more)

A sunrise eclipse. A warm glow surrounds Norfolk & Western J-Class Locomotive #611 as she eclipses the rising sun on Pennsylvania's Strasburg Rail Road, with a freight consist, to kick off ... (more)

Riding behind Reading T-1 No. 2102 in 1985, from Temple, PA to Jim Thorpe, PA. The trip commemorated the 40th anniversary of the building of the first T-1 in the Reading Shops in 1945.

Amidst the shroud of steam, smoke and the haze an afternoon rain storm, Norfolk and Western 611 approaches Carpenters Graveyard at the Strasburg Railroad

The crews of Norfolk & Western 475 and 611 pose for a portrait on a cloudless October morning.

Norfolk & Western 611 is on display inside the roundhouse at North Carolina Transportation Museum.

One day Moscow, Russia. This depot still use steam engines in regular work. On photo 5 hot engines - too much for 21 ceinture, happens about once a year.

First trip with passengers to the old Russian town. The 20-kilometer branch into town hasn't changed much since it was built in the 50's, with wooden ties and no overhead wires. Passenger station ... (more)

"Black smoke is wasteful." There's a placard on the front wall of the coal fence on the tender of 611 that proclaims black smoke as wasteful. That sign is large enough and positi... (more)

On her way to "Pumpkinville." A farmer's daughter, taking her family's tractor back to the barn, exchanges waves with the fireman on Norfolk & Western's J-Class Locomotive #611 as it flies ... (more)