Bob Willetts peered through the windows of a passenger car at the crowd gathered across from Roanoke’s East End Shops.

An iconic locomotive is stationed at the Strasburg Rail Road for the summer season.The Norfolk & Western Railway Class J 611 locomotive is known as a powerhouse of steam, technology and near ...

Lancaster County railfans will have opportunities to see, ride and even fire up a rare steam locomotive across four weekends in Strasburg this fall. The Norfolk & Western Class J 611 steam passenger ...

1941: Norfolk & Western Roanoke Shops begin building Class J steam locomotives. 1950: The 611 rolls off the line to pull passenger train Powhatan Arrow from Norfolk to Cincinnati. Jan. 23, 1956: 611 ...

The reunion between Norfolk & Western Railway’s J Class No. 611 locomotive and its Class M engine No. 475 was an idea whose time had come. Past Strasburg Rail Road president Linn Moedinger had hoped ...

SPENCER — The rail enthusiast looks at the Class J 611 steam locomotive, and he sees power, majesty, engineering, the bullet nose, the Tuscan red stripe, the giant wheels, the gleaming rods and the ...

Plans to send the Norfolk & Western Class J 611 rolling down the rails again remain on track. (Pun intended.) The classic steam engine, prize possession of the Virginia Museum of Transportation in ...

“The Spirit of Roanoke”—Norfolk & Western Class J 611, which has sat silently at the Virginia Museum of Transportation for the past 20 years—will soon be headed to Spencer, N.C., for restoration by ...

Read full article: Historic N&W 611 steam locomotive back on the rails for scenic journeys through Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley Built at the east end shops in Roanoke in 1950, N&W 611 is still beloved ...

Plans to send the Norfolk & Western Class J 611 rolling down the rails again remain on track. The classic steam engine, prize possession of the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, was towed ...

The Henry County Sheriff's Office is investigating after a 14-year-old suffering from a gunshot wound showed up at a convenience store.Authorities say they teen Lynchburg City Council members share ...