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

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)

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.

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)

N&W 611 departs newly installed CP Duncan on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. The NC Transportation Museum held a COVID safe even consisting of cab tours of the 611. In between the tours the event ... (more)

Norfolk & Western 475 and 611 pose side by side for a line of photographers in Paradise.

611, assisted by a lone diesel, starts the 16 mile westbound twisting grade toward Bluefield, WV. The last years of the NS Steam Program saw the consists grow to 25 plus cars. To help get the tra... (more)

Stenciled on the tender of every Norfolk & Western steam locomotive was “Black Smoke is Waste”. This photo is the absolute antithesis of what the N&W wanted their image to be. N&W 611 puts on ... (more)

The Queen of Steam let’s off a large plume of smoke during a chartered photo shoot on that Strasburg Railroad. Driving rain couldn’t dampen spirits or the beauty of the engine. With 611 back... (more)

The 611 is easily handling a 3-car "shuttle" from East Strasburg to Ground Hog Cut and back on a cool October day

Not even cloudy skies and hard rain can dampen the spirit of the Queen of Steam.

The early morning sun peeks its way around the streamlined nose of N&W 611 as it makes an early morning run-by during the Reunion of Steam N&W photo event at the Strasburg Rail Road in October of ... (more)

Norfolk and Western 611 hauls a freight train west past Carpenter's Cemetary in Paradise, PA. This was part of a Lerro Productions photo charter.