The 611 works by the Niagra power dam with the final return trip of the Roanoker. The magnificent steam plume made standing in the pouring rain atop the Blue Ridge Parkway bridge very much worth i... (more)

The J passes The Chair in downtown Thomasville, NC, with NS train number 955, deadheading from Spencer to Greensboro.

Norfolk and Western 611 accelerates southbound by the depot in Salisbury, North Carolina, on its way to Charlotte on a cool spring Sunday morning.

In a scene that hasn't happened since December 1994, Norfolk and Western class J number 611 leads excursion train 957 north out of Charlotte, North Carolina on a perfect Spring morning.

Norfolk and Western class J number 611 leads excursion train 957 underneath the airline taxiway at the Charlotte Intermodal Facility as an American Eagle CRJ-900 crosses overhead with a regional f... (more)

After "coming down the mountain" from Asheville via the loops, 611 continues her journey eastward back to Spencer, NC.

NW 611 steams through Goodview, Virginia, on a ferry run to Spencer from Roanoke. As Graham Claytor said, "It is a good thing to let another generation know what a steam locomotive is".

Norfolk and Western 611 shoves up the hill out of the Virginia Museum Transportation in Roanoke, ready for a ferry move to Spencer as NS train number 956, on a cold January 6, 2017 morning.

No. 611 roars to the top of the Blue Ridge grade putting on an awe inspiring bout of showman ship as she pushes through the intermediates at Blue Ridge.

Norfolk and Western Class J #611 thunder through the small town of Brown's Summit, NC on her way to Lynchburg, VA. The white steam exhaust illustrates how this cold clear morning provided excellen... (more)

Norfolk and Western Class J #611 storms up the Blue Ridge grade with the first Powhatan Arrow excursion train of the weekend. This was my first time seeing 611 on her home territory and it was an ... (more)