"Through the Tree Tunnel" - N&W 475 runs around her consist in Leamans Place, as seen through this tunnel of trees.
N&W 611 "Queen of Steam" pulls into the platform at Strasburg. Although not 100% prototypical to the N&W era, the B&W edit makes for a great photo op.
A new day dawns at the Strasburg Rail Road
Its not even noon and the temperature has soared high into the nineties. Despite this, many train buffs are lined up at the Strasburg depot to view N&W 611 "Queen of Steam."
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)
During a visit to a Strasburg, Norfolk & Western 611 guides a 9 car train into the platform, passing by J Tower.
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)
Strasburg Rail Road's N&W 4-8-0 No. 475 leads an early afternoon excursion through Paradise, PA. Built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia in June of 1906 and run on the Norfolk & Wes... (more)
N&W No. 611 leads the 6 pm excursion past Cherry Hill Farm and west through the woods by Esbenshade.Road.
N&W No. 611 rounds the bend at Paradise, PA at the Strasburg Rail Road.
Norfolk & Western Double Header Pan Shot
Norfolk & Western's 4-8-0 No. 382 double heads with Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 No. 611 at the Strasburg Rail Road's "N&W Re-union of Steam" event wit... (more)
"The Return of a Monarch" - Norfolk & Western 611 is affectionately nicknamed, "The Queen of Steam" on behalf of her great size and streamlining.
Norfolk & Western 611 leads a passenger train up the hill at Carpenters on a sweltering summer day, with temperatures soaring into the high-nineties.
Word's out!
Railfans gather at nearly every grade crossing at the Strasburg Rail Road to catch a glimpse of N&W No. 611, captured here charging across Cherry Hill Road.
