It's about time!

N&W No. 611 leads the 5 PM excursion past the railroad's new clock tower and on towards the station. Lancaster jeweler Brent L. Miller Railroad: Norfolk & Western
Locomotive: Steam 4-8-4
Location: Ronks, Pennsylvania, USA
Locomotive #: NW 611
Train ID: Unknown
Photo Date: July 10, 2021

No. 611 puts on a show for the three photographers that were trackside at Cherry Hill during the last run of the day on May 30, 2021.

No. 611 simmers outside the Strasburg shop on its first day of excursions service on "The Road To Paradise" for 2021.

The face of a queen. I missed seeing Norfolk and Western #611 in 2019 in Strasburg so when it was announced it would be there all this summer, I was very excited. It was certainly a unique experie... (more)

On the final run of the evening, the 611 brings her train back toward the station.

The Class J 600 gives a little smoke show as she pulls out of the tree tunnel on the Strasburg RR.

Passengers are brought back into the station by the 611 after the 3pm run.

The 611 pulls her train past Groff's.

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)