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If you blink your eyes in the train or in a car, likely you missed Whittles, at one time, it likely was a busy little farming settlement, even had some sort of industry, long abandoned. Watch the video: the steam plume id wonderful on a slight uphill grade with the whistle for the road crossing.
the Norfolk and Western class J 611 passing through the blue Ridge mountains. The locomotive was designed and built by the railroad in it's Roanoke, VA shops. DSC_4994-003
Here's the view looking out the door of an F40C at F40C #611 in the Western Avenue yard. These two old beasts are pretty deteriorated on the inside having sat idle for over a decade. Rumors are they possibly could be put on display somewhere but for now they sit in the storage lines with an uncertain fate. Thanks to Embee for the inside look.
Back in the 80's one could ride behind 611 on the main line in an open car or stick your head out a side door to get cinders in one's hair or eyes. I miss main line steam for sure and even being out of sync with tourist roads with steam. 611 will run at Strasburg next month and I will be zipping around the racetrack in the racecar, decisions, decisions...
Natuurlijk werd er gewacht op de tegentrein. Met een planmatige kruising in het nabijgelegen station van Nonnenhorn moest ik zelfs niet lang wachten.
Opnieuw zien we twee treinstellen van de reeks 611, dezelfde trouwens van Gohren. Na het kop maken in Lindau zijn deze nu onderweg richting Basel.
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Nach dem Kopfmachen im Inselhauptbahnhof in Lindau, kommen die beide Triebzüge der Baureihe 611 die ich am frühen Morgen schon in Gohren fotografiert hatte, wieder zurück. Jetzt geht es als IRE nach Basel, immer die Rhein (der Bodensee ist eigentlich auch ein stück Rhein nicht?) entlang.
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Nonnenhorn, 19/07/2016
DB 611
IRE 3040 Lindau Hof - Basel Bad Bf
On its final weekend of excursions for the Shenandoah Valley Limited, Norfolk and Western 611 heads under Cedar Green road in Snyder, Virginia.
Got down to the NC Transportation Museum early in the day and photo ops abounded with the 'At The Throttle' participants taking their shot at operating 611.
Not sure what railroads are involved with the 3 bridges, Southern was apparently one. 611 is seen backing to the wye to turn the locomotive and cars around.
New England Central train 611 crosses the Millers River at Millers Falls, as it makes it way south towards Palmer MA.
Utah Railway's RUT611 local rolls eastbound through Salt Lake City with cars from Provo headed to Ogden the evening of March 13, 2014.
SJ21 MYN is a Volvo B5TL/Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC new to Lothian Buses in May 2021 as their number 611.
Lothian are the first operator for the Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC body on the Volvo B5TL chassis. It is seen here on Morrison Street whilst working service 44 (Wallyford-Balerno).
On a soggy, gray and unseasonably warm winter afternoon a trio of rebuilt SD40M-2s (only the rear of which was online) lead New England Central Railroad train 611 (Brattleboro to Palmer turn that forwards the connecting 323/324 road freight traffic) north past the old Central Vermont era station sign at Belchertown. This is MP 74.6 on the NECR's Palmer Sub, and the small yard here that was once a busy location is now empty and seemingly little used.
In the lead is NECR 3476 a rebuilt SD40M-2 that began life as an SD45 (and still wears the classic flared car body) blt. Mar. 1969 as SSW 9058. The old CV never rostered anything like this and the swampland of central Mass sure is a long way from this old girl's days of whipping thru Texarkana on the head of the Memphis Blue Streak...but at least she's still earning her keep.
Belchertown, Massachusetts
Thursday January 26, 2023
Metra F40C 611 and a F40PH-2 had a Fox Lake bound Milwaukee North line scoot passing the flange greaser in Libertyville in 2009.
The 611 was briefly reactivated from storage to help out while some of Metra's MP36s were rebuilt. The neat cowl unit soon went back into storage at Metra's Western Avenue yard and has been rusting away ever since.
Fire it back up!
Always nice to see 611 under steam and smell the coal smoke!!! Catching 611 under the lights and working the hill up to the yard is always nice. Static in this pic, waiting for the videos when I get back home. The NC Transportation Museum is holding a bit of a 611 extravaganza this weekend and the night shoot was one item.
N&W Class J 611 is eastbound at Wabun VA. returning from Walton on the last excursion of the weekend.
Norfolk and Western Class J 4-8-4 number 611 has a short photo freight in tow on the grounds of the North Carolina Transportation Museum located in the former Southern Railway Spencer Shop complex.
Built by the Norfolk and Western in house at their East End Shops she was in the last of three batches of the class built totalling fourteen units. Entering revenue service on May 29, 1950 she had a short nine year revenue service career before being retired and donated to the city of Roanoke and placed on display in a park. In 1963 the Roanoke Transportation Museum was created around 611 as its centerpiece. The museum's original location was destroyed by a flood in 1985 and subsequently moved downtown and was renamed the Virginia Museum of Transportation. Restored by NS for their original steam program she would have her first excursion career spanning from September 1982 until December 1984 when she would be retired again for another two decade slumber.
In 2012 the city officially donated her to the museum and a year later the Fireup611! campaign began with a goal of raising $3.5 million for her second resoration. With NS contributing $1.5 million to the project she was moved here to NCTM only one year prior to this photo where her restoration began.
On May 9th less than a year after restoration began she made her first test run under her own power and on this day she finally performed in her first public appearance. Two days after I took this image she would triumphantly steam home to Roanoke over her old home rails unassisted with NS CEO Wick Moorman at the throttle as the culmination and conclusion of NS 21st Century Steam program. She led multiple mainline excursions the rest of 2015 and the next two years though in recent times she has been relegated to only operating on museum grounds here and on the Strasburg's 4 1/2 mile route that she has visited twice now for extended periods.
Spencer, North Carolina
Thursday May 28, 2015
The next day's 611 was rather late leaving Brattleboro, wasting no time south through East Northfield Junction on their trip towards Palmer.
Strong crosswinds keep 611s smoke plume low to the ground as they rumble towards Strasburg on the final day of operations for 2022.
Built in 1950, Norfolk & Western J Class 4-8-4 #611 is back on the mainlines in this shot from April 2017 in Altavista, Virginia.
After waiting for Amtrak's northbound Vermonter, NECR 611 yards their engines out into the interlocking at East Northfield Junction heading for Brattleboro, VT.
Northfield, MA.
Norfolk & Western No. 611 nears Lick Log Tunnel with the North Carolina Transportation Museum sponsored "Blue Ridge Special", bound for Asheville, NC.
Bei der Einfahrt in den Bahnhof von Löffingen konnte am 26.01.2016 der 611 530 als IRE 3211 nach Ulm augenommen werden.
During the September 2018 photo charter at the North Carolina Transportation Museum 611 get underway for one of many photo runbys. Missing these photos shoots due to the Covid requirements currently in effect.
My first chase of the N&W 611 was the first time I saw it in person. It was like a dream come true. I grew up wanting to see the loco in person but then they mothballed it. Now that it was back I was so happy to witness it running on the mainline.
N&W 611 approaching the MacArthur bridge with an excursion from Decatur, Il. @ East St Louis, Il. (830123)*
Kodachrome by Jim Strain