Shrouded in Mystery

If it were not for the bullet nose, red stripe, and of course, the numerals on this famous locomotive - which otherwise give her away! N&W No. 611 in a pan sho... (more)

An Amish woman and three children come out to see the "new" locomotive that the N&W was rumored to have assigned to the route that goes through their farm.

The engineer of N&W No. 475 takes the siding at Blacksburg, VA as N&W No. 611 idles past slowly awaiting a highball signal.

Norfolk & Western's well known class "J" 4-8-4 No. 611 captured in a blurred driver shot at 1/25th on the year of her retirement pulling a westbound manifest freight through Bristol, VA. No worri... (more)

Norfolk & Western's well known class "J" 4-8-4 No. 611 captured on the year of her retirement pulling a manifest freight westbound through Bristol, VA. Plans call for the locomotive to be moved u... (more)

A clerk for the N&W Railraod holds up trainorders for the fireman of No. 611 as the crew prepares for departure.

A momentary break in the clouds at sunrise presents a dramatic scene at Verdant View Farm as N&W No. 611 charges west through the rural countryside.

Storm Light

N&W No. 382 leads a small mixed freight over the "Pumpkinville Turnpike" in Paradise, PA.

Dressed as No. 382, Strasburg Rail Road's 1906 built No. 475 was perfor... (more)

A small mixed freight, led by one of Norfolk & Western's 4-8-0 "Mastodon's" travels west at sunrise through rural Virginia in '61.

An early morning mixed freight led by N&W 4-8-0 No. 475 catches the glint of a rising sun.

Roosters get a day off at Verdant View Farm as the "Queen of Steam" welcomes daybreak with an impressive plume and a hearty whistle!

A new day dawns at the Strasburg Rail Road

N&W 4-8-0 No. 475 has the highball as she bursts out of the woods with a freight train in a late evening pan captured at 1/13th.

A long way from Norfolk, Virginia, and both Cincinnati and Portsmouth, Ohio, No. 611 is seen here in 2019 along a new route near Esbenshade Road, between Paradise and Ronks, Pennsylvania, at the S... (more)

As EMD E units came online In the late 1950's, Norfolk & Western's famed class J streamlined locomotives, having been in service less than a decade, were reassigned to freight service. The enginee... (more)