A reminder of the glory days of railroading, N&W 2156 sits on static display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke. The big articulated "Mallet" was built in the N&W Roanok... (more)

One of only two N&W Y class Mallets remaining. Y6a #2156 is on a 5 year loan to Virginia Museum of Transportation from the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis. The other Y class is; Y3 #2050 at ... (more)

I shot the westbound Norfolk & Western Y-6 2-8-8-2 with auxiliary tender from the 5th St. bridge over the Roanoke yard.

N&W 2105 at Bluefield, WVa in the late summer of 1959.

The Lone Survivor

After a successful weekend of excursions N&W 611 joins its sisters at the Virginia Museum of Transportation. A brief break in heavy cloud cover allowed for th... (more)

Roanoke

N&W class Y6a #2156 sits by N&W class A #1218 each awaiting their next assignment. Built respectively in 1942 and 1943, No. 2156 will retire in 1959 after working the coal fields... (more)

During a week of photo charters with the NRZ´s few operational Garratts, 14A519 hauls a mixed train from Bulawayo to Cement.

N&W Y6a Class #2156 is finally home in Roanoke, and she's a beauty. Built as the strongest pulling locomotive in the N&W Steam Fleet back in the day, she was built right here in downtown Roanoke i... (more)

N&W class Y6a #2156 poses in front of the former site of the N&W/NS Roanoke Car Shop, present day Freight Car America facility. A yard crew has pulled the big gal out of her hiding place and left ... (more)

The Big Three class of engines of the N&W are together once more at the Virginia Museum of Transportation

N&W Class Y6A 2156 entering the Virginia Museum of Transportation

Having barely slipped through the gate onto the Virginia Museum of Transportation's property- veteran steam program member Bobby Saxtan, in the high visibility vest, focuses on the large Y6a negot... (more)

After 56 year wait and a long trip from St. Louis, the N&W Y6a #2156 is finally reunited with Class J #611 and Class A #1218.

Photographer: -Norman Blackwood- from the original Kodachrome 35mm slide. This is one of three N&W Y6 class engines (one Y6a and two Y6b's) that languished into the mid 1970's in Roanoke. It i... (more)

Norfolk and Western Y6a #2156 shows some articulation as it leans into the curve exiting the east portal of Welch Tunnel in Welch, West Virginia. Norfolk Southern train 956 completed the repositi... (more)