Norfolk & Western's 4-8-4 J-Class locomotive leads a passenger car excursion through the rural Amish countryside while on a visit to the Strasburg Rail Road in Pennsylvania.
Visiting locomotive, N&W No. 611, pulls Strasburg's last train of the day up the steep grade at Cherry Crest Farm and on towards the depot, before calling it a night.
Having racked up hundred's of thousands of miles pulling famed passenger trains between VA and OH throughout her career which began in 1950, J-class N&W No. 611 finds herself young at heart during... (more)
The "Queen of Steam", N&W No. 611 arrives at Blacksburg... I mean, Groff's Grove, in Cherry Hill, Pennsylvania. The "modern" streamline J-Class locomotive may look a little ou... (more)