The Virginia Museum of Transportation (VMT) has announce that the Norfolk & Western Class J 611 steam passenger locomotive will return to the mainline in 2017 with an exciting schedule of public excursions.
April 09, 2016 Norfolk and Western Class J #611 thunders through the small town of Brown’s Summit, NC on her way to Lynchburg, VA. -Ben Kletzer
The sleek and powerful Class J steam passenger locomotives, designed and built in Roanoke, Va., by the Norfolk & Western Railway, widely were hailed as the finest steam passenger locomotives in the world.
Norfolk and Western 4-8-4 #611 returned to Virginia to pull 2-days of excursions out of Roanoke in May of 2016.
2017 N&W 611 Spring Excursion Dates
- April 8, 2017 – The Virginian, Spencer, NC to Lynchburg, VA
- April 9, 2017 – The Charlotte Special, Spencer, NC to Charlotte, NC
- April 9, 2017 – The Piedmont Limited, Spencer, NC to Greensboro, NC
- April 22, 2017 – The Roanoker, Greensboro, N.C. to Roanoke, Va.
- April 23, 2017 – The Roanoker, Greensboro, N.C. to Roanoke, Va.
- May 6, 2017 – The Cavalier, Lynchburg, Va., to Petersburg, Va.
- May 7, 2017 – TheCavalier, Lynchburg, Va., to Petersburg, Va.
- May 27, 2017 – The Powhatan Arrow, Roanoke, Va., to Lynchburg, Va.
- May 27, 2017 – The Pocahontas, Roanoke, Va., to Walton (Radford), Va.
- May 28, 2017 – The Powhatan Arrow, Roanoke, Va., to Lynchburg, Va.
- May 28, 2017 – The Pocahontas, Roanoke, Va., to Walton (Radford), Va.
- May 29, 2017 – The Powhatan Arrow, Roanoke, Va., to Lynchburg, Va.
- May 29, 2017 – The Pocahontas, Roanoke, Va., to Walton (Radford), Va.
The Virginia Museum of Transportation is home to the famed Norfolk & Western “Big Three” steam locomotives. The N&W Class J 611 and the N&W Class A 1218 are the stars of the Museum’s collection while the N&W Class Y6a 2156 is on loan from the St Louis Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Mo.
