Norfolk & Western 611 leads NS excursion train 956 by the Montvale signals

West Virginia State Route 112 follows the former Norfolk & Western right-of-Way, now Norfolk Southern, from Oakvale WV to Ingleside WV, offering many photo opportunities along the way. Here N&W 61... (more)

A Bristol-Walton-Bristol excursion is on the return leg and the chill in the air makes for gorgeous plumes.

In the Marion area Norfolk & Western (as I will always think of it) wiggles through the narrow, winding confines of the valley of the Middle Fork of the Holston River the abandons the river for th... (more)

Whooda thunk it. N&W on C&O. Racing EB with an excursion. Balcony (long O, locally)Falls is the site of a wye and a connecting line to the N&W's Shenandoah Line which actually crosses the C&O a... (more)

Racing EB with an excursion.

Cruising down the river. Unassisted, "high wide and handsome" as they used to say, the famous J is loping along easily as she might have done in regular service.

N&W 611 is being serviced in preparation for a northbound run out of Salisbury NC. It was rare to see the engine with a nice patina of road grime like this. It gives it the appearance of an older ... (more)

With the steam era “Lubritorium” service building in the background, N&W 611 simmers in the rain in Bluefield yard. Four months later many steam fans would shed a tear as Norfolk Southern anno... (more)

The Big J heads west. With just seconds of daylight left, Norfolk & Western J-Class Northern #611 charges west through the Fairview section of Pennsylvania's Strasburg Rail Road, headed for... (more)

Frosty, pre-dawn departure. The Norfolk & Western Railway's colorful J-Class Northern #611 waits with her passenger train in the yard at East Strasburg, PA, as her crew performs brake tests... (more)

Barreling through Ohio farmland. Norfolk & Western J-Class Northern #611 looks right at home barreling across open farmland, hauling a 5-car express passenger train on a sunny November afte... (more)

Crossing the Pumpkinville Pike. Here's a mid-morning view of Norfolk & Western J-Class Northern #611 as she hauls a matched string of wooden coaches over the famous bridge spanning the &quo... (more)

Fifties classics cross paths. In what could be a scene out of the mid-1950s on one of the Norfolk & Western's Ohio routes, the J-Class Northern #611 charges through a rural crossing as the ... (more)

Executing a "hard start". On most railroad photo shoots, run-bys are initiated out of sight of the photo line from around a curve or behind a stand of trees. This serves two purp... (more)