Excursions

Tue Jun 23 22:23:29 EDT 2015

I can save you an email.

If you don’t have access to your email to print boarding passes within the 48 hours. Bring your confirmation number to the location at least 1 hour prior. There will be a will call booth setup giving people the information they need such as car assignments.

Seats are not assigned however cars are.

As mentioned below there is no riding in the vestibule this is NS policy. 

Here is the information that goes out via the boarding pass.

Boarding Location

Boarding will take place adjacent to the O. Winston Link Museum, located at 101 Shenandoah Avenue NE, Roanoke, VA, 24016.  Plan to arrive at least 1 hour prior to departure.

Parking

You will find parking downtown Roanoke at the Gainsboro Garage, 25 Shenandoah Avenue NW, within a block of the boarding location.  Additonal parking is available in Tower Garage at 19 Norfolk Avenue SE, accessible to the boarding location via an enclosed pedestrian walkway with stairs and an elevator to the track level.  Daytime weekend parking is free at both locations.

Regards,

Mike V.

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We rode 611’s ‘The Cavalier’ Lynchburg-Petersburg return on the 14th June, it was brilliant. Look up the ‘Fire up 611’ website and or the ‘Virginia Museum of Transportation VMT’ the details of excursions are listed.

I can see the afternoon trip on 4th July is listed as The Pelican from Roanoke to Radford’s nearby Walton Junction 1.30 pm to 5.30 pm. As the trip is from Roanoke perhaps boarding will be from nearby the Link museum and the Doubletree/Hilton Roanoke Hotel and conference centre and there is a multi story car park nearby, though definite confirmed details will be on your email or perhaps you can email the VMT soon and ask where the boarding point will be in Roanoke.   (611 will be on 4th July run a morning trip The Powhatan Arrow 0800 am to 1200 travelling from Roanoke to Lynchburg return prior to your afternoon trip)  

As for seat assignment and boarding passes, as well as the boarding location and parking details, for our trip these details were emailed to us 48 hours before our departure, as were friends of ours that rode the train on the previous day the 13th they had their email 48 hours prior to their trip too.  Your comment of travelling great distances to ride behind 611,  we flew across to the US from London England the previous day and then travelled in our hire car from Washington DC to Lynchburg and printed off our boarding passes when we got to our overnight hotel in Lynchburg in the hotel lobby area with the free wifi and computer there.  People we sat next to on our trip had travelled from Seattle West coast to ride 611 and were not able to print off hard copies of their seat assignment/boarding passes but showed the conductor/car host on-board their emailed seat assignment email on their phone screen.  I was told that at the departure point there are volunteers with the lists of seat assignment details, so if you are not able to obtain the details, you can at the boarding point go to the area and get the relevant information.

Am sure you will thoroughly enjoy riding 611, don’t forget your camera and a safe return journey to and from Peoria IL. 

Richard and Ann Hood

England UK

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Subject: Excursions

Could somebody tell me about the excursions?  We are coming for July 4th and I would like to know:

Where do we board?

Where do we park?

Are the seats assigned?

Can we hear the locomotive and get cinders in our hair?

The return email when I bought the tickets said that they would email us 48 hours in advance.  That isn't enough time for people who are travelling great distances.  I would like to have my boarding passes in hand when I leave home.

I signed up for the afternoon also.  Is that the Pelican and are we going to Radford?  People keep mentioning Walton...has it changed from Radford?

Mike Shockley

Peoria IL

As for the writing under the cab window and dual headlights etc...I missed everything totally in the 90's.   The can put wings on it now, I plan to ride it anyway!!!!!!!!!!

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