After triumphantly returning to her birthplace earlier in the afternoon- N&W 611 rests next to big brother Class A 1218. The next day even bigger brother Y6a 2156 would make his appearance for the... (more)

The final stage of the day for Trains magazine editor Jim Wrinn's Fired Up! [N&W 611] photo charter- a night photo session outside the Bob Julian roundhouse at the North Carolina Transportation Mu... (more)

During its mainline test run on May 21, 2015, Norfolk and Western class J number 611 sprints along the Piedmont Division mainline at milepost 311 near Thomasville, North Carolina with train number... (more)

In the third of what would be a dozen plus run-by's, 611 brings a late-1950's era mixed train around the loop track on the north end of the Spencer Yard where a train order fork hand off was stage... (more)

N&W 611 Heads west. Photo taken from the I-66 overpass in The Plains VA

Like a scene from the railroading days long ago on the Norfolk and Western, the N&W 1218 and N&W 611 sit side by side in Roanoke, VA and appear to be awaiting their next assignments. The crew of ... (more)

The firebox on an N&W J is 578 square feet. All of which was hot and ready the morning of May 29, 2015. The crew was getting 611 ready for her big return to Roanoke.

N&W 611 makes her way through an S-Curve and under a former Southern Railway signal bridge on her ferry move from Roanoke to Manassas in advance of this coming weekend excursions and first public ... (more)

Under gloomy skies and light drizzle NS train #956, pulled by N&W class J #611, heads north across James River trestle towards Manassas after picking up three private cars at Lynchburg's Kemper St... (more)

NS 957 with N&W 611 on the point heads north towards Roanoke. With much of the trip remaining, nearly 60,000 people have yet to see her trackside

N&W 611 leads NS 957 north past the large cemetery in Reidsville NC on her way back to her birthplace in Roanoke VA.

In a view that could likely be taken in 1958, 611 rumbles past the idling ACL 501 re-lettered to represent the units N&W leased. Southern 6133 has been working all afternoon to assemble the photo ... (more)

611 rolls past a restored 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air convertible on the second of what would be a Dozen plus rub-by's during the Fired Up Photo Charter on May 28th, 2015.

Newly renovated 611 gets a bath on her 65th birthday in preparation for her historic homecoming run to Roanoke the following day

Norfolk and Western class J #611 crosses the Roanoke River at Altavista, Virginia on its homecoming journey. The 611 would stop in Lynchburg for a crew change, water, and coal before making its gr... (more)