Norfolk & Western 611: Thunder in the Blue Ridge | Roanoke Excursions 2016
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On May 7, 2016, the mountains around Roanoke, Virginia echoed with the sounds of steam once again. Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 #611, in conjunction with the Virginia Museum of Transportation and Norfolk Southern, pulled a series of excursion trains over former Norfolk & Western Railway rails in and around Roanoke. On the morning of May 7th, N&W 611 kicked off the weekend with a round trip excursion from Roanoke to Lynchburg. The train, named "The Powhatan Arrow" after the N&W's famous passenger train that ran between Norfolk, VA and Cincinnati, OH, took passengers up the Blue Ridge grade and through the towns of Bedford, Lowry, and Forest before arriving and turning at Lynchburg. In the afternoon, 611 pulled an excursion (called "The Pelican") between Roanoke and Walton Junction (right outside of Radford). This train passed through the Montgomery Tunnels and up the steep Christiansburg grade before arriving at the edge of the New River and turning on the wye at Walton Junction. Please enjoy our footage of this event!
I was a car host that weekend. I was in the Milwaukee Road Stampede Pass. Second dome car in the consist. Unforgettable experience.
Good old N&W 611, my favorite locomotive & I love that deep whistle it has 😊😊
Great to see her on the road again, she sat in the local museum here in Roanoke for years before being rebuilt. great engine with class.
Greetings from Central Australia. So so good to see 611 running again. No doubt in my mind that the J class were one of the finest classes of locomotives ever built - powerful, fast, reliable and very economic to run... but for people like us who love steam engines the greatest thing about them is that they look so graceful!!!! .......Hᴜɢʜ….…..ツ
It truly is! Thanks for the comment!
Glad to see that 611 has fans from down under.
Thanks for the comment, I was fortunate to visit Australia in the 1950's fantastic people, I came close to deserting to stay . Glad I had the opportunity. Best wishes to you and your countrymen.
I love the new whistle it's more mellow not as course as last years... Almost a sadness to it like an animal calling out for more of its kind and waiting for an answer in vain...
Greetings from the UK.
WOW!
What a fabulous locomotive.
I have an HO scale model, but this is something else.
Well done everyone who got her back on "main line metals"!
The Spirit of Roanoke thunders the grade mountains 🚂🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃
We are looking forward to riding this train in May.
I remember riding on the 611 when I was far younger! I need to try to get on a trip before they stop them again!
Great video and thank you for sharing by the way!
What a fabulous machine
I love this video so much because I was standing beside you in Vinton.
Were you? Small world!
It's me guys
You have a black smoke. Clean yourself up. Look tidy like your British sisters.
i miss that train
Me too!
It's been at Spencer NC earlier this last year before going back to Roanoke, it was at Spencer NC for some maintenance work
611 isn't running the manassas trips this year, so my dad and I need to learn the Roanoke-Lynchburg-radford areas
Cant wait to see this beauty with her sister at Strasburg!
That is how lots of families traveled years ago.i would love to ride the rails on her.
Would love to see the OHCR Sugarcreek private car behind the 765 and 611 excursions. That'll be awesome!
So beautiful...especially without an ugly diesel in tow.
Diesels aren't ugly, just like, well, that person you know that who has a great personalty, you know, unattractive maybe but butt ugly, well, beauty is in the eye of the beholder...if you're blind.
It would be quite interesting if 611 and 4014 ever meet. The queen of the rails comes face to face with the king of the rails.
Man its a shame these amateurs that film and show these videos they don’t realize all the precious shots in filming moving video’s what a loss!!!!!
At Vicker, is that a sand, water or coal tank? I've never seen on like that.
Nice job
Thank you!
If only my family never moved again after moving to Blacksburg...
What happened to the other ns steam program Passenger cars, I remember they was !
N&w dome car
They might be on the executive train
Can I use this footage for a music video? I'll credit you.
+JAM Rail vids Hi! Shoot me an email at indie1361@gmail.com. Just let me know which piece you wanna use and I'll send it over ( I watermark all my stuff though, just a heads up)!
indie1361 Thank you but You don't need to send anything to me although I do have an email. I just need to save this one video to my files and import it to Imovie which I use to make videos.
JAM Rail vids That sounds good! Feel free to send it over once you're done; I'd love to see it!
indie1361 I'd also like to use some of your video of Stasburg 475 if you don't mind.
JAM Rail vids Sure!