With N&W 611 doing the honors and putting on a show, the 2:00 train makes its way past the Red Caboose Motel as it enters Strasburg yard limits.

N&W Class-J No. 611, under PRR catenary and getting underway to Strasburg via the old No. 1 eastbound track, which is now the Strasburg Rail Road's interchange track. NS SD70ACe No. 1206, which h... (more)

Crew member Anthony Farrell prepares Norfolk & Western 611 for the days activities, including multiple wipe downs to make sure all is looking proper!

Norfolk & Western 611 glides through the farm fields of eastern Pennsylvania on a late summer day. The crops of surrounding fields have almost reached their peaks before being harvest this coming ... (more)

Crew member Anthony Farrell prepares 611 for the weekends excursions. The locomotive has just started moving to be placed over the ash pit on the adjacent track.

I was finally able to mark seeing the 611 move under its own power off my bucket list! Here, they begin to pull from Groffs after picking up and letting off passengers at the picnic area. This was... (more)

611’s Last Strasburg Sunset

… for 2021, anyway. Today is N&W 611’s last day at Strasburg, and last evening was the last late train at the end of the day. I have been trying t... (more)

The visiting N&W J Class #611 heads back to Strasburg across the "Pumpkinville Turnpike" bridge on a beautiful September morning.

611 is rolling southbound on a cold February day. She is on her way to Spencer NC from Roanoke VA. Over the winter months in Roanoke she has had the wheels replaced on her pilot truck. They will g... (more)

The 611 in a driving rain on Memorial Day weekend 2021, accelerating out of Groff's Grove

With the world slowly escaping Covid, 2021 also marks the return of N&W superpower to the Strasburg Railroad. After making its way out of Leaman Place, J Class #611 accelerates up the Pumpkinville... (more)

Charging up-hill out of Leaman Place, NW 611 billows a plume of dark smoke on its way back to Strasburg. Built in 1950, the bullet-like locomotive has been fully restored and is the last class J l... (more)

After getting photos of two different Norfolk Southern heritage units leading trains, it looked like the 7:00 Strasburg train would possibly operate in storm light. Those conditions didn’t exact... (more)

Steam Show: Watching N&W 611 leave Roanoke on one of its last mainline excursions was the first time I'd seen a proper display of mainline steam power.

No. 611 leads the Amish Edition of the Powhatan Arrow through the Pennsylvania Dutch countryside on a wet spring day.