While running on the Strasburg Rail Road on the afternoon of Saturday, October 19, 2019, Virginia Museum of Transportation's former Norfolk and Western J Class (4-8-4, steam engine) 611 passes ove... (more)

Under a full head of black steam on the Strasburg Rail Road on the afternoon of Saturday, October 19, 2019, Virginia Museum of Transportation's former Norfolk and Western J Class (4-8-4, steam eng... (more)

My first visit to the Strasburg Rail Road was as a preschooler in the early 1960’s. I rode behind 0-6-0 31, Strasburg’s first steam locomotive in the “tourist era”. My next visit to Strasb... (more)

NW train 611 makes its final move toward the station at Strasburg after a full day of excursions on a cold afternoon in PA.

Among the low growing rows of crops, Norfolk & Western J Class #611 hustles back heading west to her terminal and point of origin with a short freight in tow.

The Other Strasburg Reunion

There’s been a lot of attention paid to the two live Norfolk & Western steam locomotives that have been reunited at Strasburg, but there was another s... (more)

Right on schedule, N&W #611 shows off her speed as she races past Beiler's Crossing.

With the use of some camera work, N&W #475 gives #611's speed a run for her money as she makes haste heading west back to East Strasburg with a vintage mixed train in tow.

N&W #611 and her cannon-like exhaust marches around Long Curve outside of Paradise, Pennsylvania hauling a vintage freight train for a photo charter. Notice the scorched tree branches overhanging ... (more)

NW 611 (4-8-4) at Verdant View Farm in Paradise, PA at sunrise. Taken during a photo charter with Lerro Productions and the Strasburg Railroad.

Engineman Mark Young is along for the ride as N&W M Class #475 coasts out of Leaman Place Junction while N&W J Class #611 simmers away on the siding awaiting clear boards west back to Strasburg, P... (more)

Strasburg 90 brings the last run of the day into the station on a wonderful fall afternoon with the company Model T displayed on the platform. Both of these awesome machines were built in 1924, an... (more)

N&W 611 on the Virginia Creeper: In its final years of steam on the Norfolk and Western Railroad, the 611 and its sister J class locomotives were assigned to local freight trains in Virgini... (more)

"Morning with an M": N&W M Class #475 peacefully shuffles along as her saturated exhaust lifts itself high into the sky on a sunny and cloudless morning next to the farms doting the land... (more)

"50 cents worth of memories": Norfolk & Western #611 thunders by the Verdant View Farm on the morning of October 5, 2019. This picture was taken from the viewing platform of the silo at ... (more)