The last run of the 475 for the weekend is seen just past the Pumpkinville Turnpike in some great late evening sun.
NW 475 gets started again from a quick stop at Groff's on the Strasburg RR.
475 brings the final run of the evening back into Strasburg.
After coming from Roanoke on a ferry move, Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 1218 eases off of the N&W wye in Lynchburg, Virginia, and proceeds down the connector to the Southern main line and the excursi... (more)
The locals have shown up to see the steam engine, but all eyes seem to be on the diesels while the fire-breathing monster simmers behind them. I’m not sure of the exact sequence here, but the 12... (more)
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.
The sun is beginning to set in Lancaster County as 611 brings the last train of the day west to Strasburg, through the farmland.
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.
Several cars of railfans are lined up as N&W 611 returns west with an evening excursion.
611 arrives back at Strasburg with a long excursion train.
N&W 611 gets back on the move out of Cherry Hill.