Fire Up Norfolk & Western 611!

NW 611 westbound

April 28, 1992 westbound from Roanoke to Bristol with a ferry run, N&W 611 is just outside Glade Spring, Va. The engine will be turned on the wye with the old Saltville Branch, and towed into Bristol to be in place for a round trip passenger excursion the next weekend. There was no place to turn the engine in Bristol (until the end of 1957, the Js and other N&W steam power were turned on the turntable at the roundhouse, about a mile north of the depot). Photo by Ron Flanary.

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