Norfolk & Western No. 611 begins trip to Pennsylvania and the Strasburg

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Mr. Keiling

The Class J locomotive were never regularly used on the Shenandoah Division, in the normal steam era, none of the Class Js were equipped with cab signals as were required for the Shenandoah Division until 1957. Mason Cooper has a dispatch record for a Class J from, I believe, Shenandoah, but no date was given.

Normal passenger power in the later years were the Class K2. 

In the excursion era, 1982-1994 the 611 was restricted from north of Glasgow, but I’ve never found a specific location or reason, I think it might have been a weight restriction on a bridge or two.

We took it to Glasgow one time, if I recall correctly, in May 1994, turned it there on the wye at the C&O and deadheaded back to Roanoke, the excursion train went east behind diesels.

Ken Miller

> On Aug 20, 2019, at 11:59 AM, NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org> wrote:
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> Would the 611 (or other J class locos) have ever operated on the Shenandoah Valley line in revenue service, and if so, when was the last time, 1959?
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> J. Kelling
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> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 9:10 AM NW Mailing List <nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org <mailto:nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org>> wrote:
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> More details on the N&W J 611 movement from the Trains Newswire. 
> Norris 
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> Norfolk & Western No. 611 begins trip to Pennsylvania and the Strasburg
> August 19, 2019
> Trains News Wire 
> BUENEA VISTA, Va. — Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 No. 611 has begun its trek to Pennsylvania, but its northbound run through the Shenandoah Valley is going less than smooth thanks to a freight train with a dead distributed power unit ahead of it. 
> 
> The locomotive left Roanoke, Va., behind Norfolk Southern C40-9W No. 9214 as the steam locomotive does not have Positive Train Control or cab signals. It is moving via the former N&W Shenandoah Valley line to Hagerstown, Md., and eventually Harrisburg, Pa., before moving to the Strasburg Rail Road for events in late September and October. In addition to its canteen, the consist includes a tool car and two gondolas of coal. 
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> At last report the engine was at Buena Vista, Va., about 60 miles northeast of Roanoke, waiting on NS to send power to a freight that was stalled ahead of No. 611 to clear up the single-track main line. No. 611 is expected to reach Strasburg on Tuesday.
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