N&W 611 May 1993
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- Manassas, VA to Lynchburg, VA 5/15/93
I was being led in the chase by two local guys so I don't know the intermediate locations but the opening shot is of the 611 being hostled at Manassas and the other known location is the James River Bridge at 09:06
Manassas, VA to Front Royal, 5/16/93 beginning at 13:05
Seen at: West side of Manassas, The Plains, Delaplane, Linden, Front Royal and Linden.
Hi8 Master recording
Dude....that's not a whistle, that's a monster growling lol. Things a BEAST!!
03:50-Nokesville
04:18-Catlett
05:16-Winston
11:55-Montpelier
12:20-Brandy Station
12:35-Midland
Excellent video! Thank you for bringing back the memories!
One of the best 611 videos ever!
oh the sound of that whistle Oh it is just soo relaxing and soothing to hear :)
Some people think steaming this thing down was the end of a era. To a extent, they were right. However, I have to say, seeing the work being put back into this piece of history is impressive. I look forward to 611 returning to steam!
I can't wait for her to be back in action, that deep whistle echoing off the mountains!
Hell yeah, man!
I can't wait either. I wasn't even alive when the NS had their first steam program. Now the 611 will come back and put on a show for the new generation of railfans, including myself.
MrRailroadrunner #611 is back up and running. They have better liability so there won't be anymore accidents like the Great Dismal Swamp. However, since 1994, the only railroad that does not allow the operation or use of steam excursions on their trackage is CSX.
Erich Diebold I hope that CSX's board removes the sticks that are up their asses and lets steam run someday.
Can't wait to see this loco run again and maybe the 1218 to beautiful locomotives that can never be duplicated long live the new and former NS steam program and the Claytor brothers who ran the program may they never be forgotten
Andrew Bowe So far, the steam program at this point has four operational steamers, N&W #611 (recently did a test run yesterday), Southern #4501 and #630 and Nickel Plate #765. There may be plans to use U.S. Army 2-8-0 #610, N&W #1218 and a Y class, and possibly S&A #750, A&WP #290, and C&O #2716.
611 is the most beautiful monster you'll ever see, 21 cars without a problem.
You can see Jack Taylor(assistant road foreman of NS steam to Bob Saxtan) walking with his pipe as 611 was backing up and turning on the wye in Front Royal.
I sure have missed seeing this wonderful locomotive. I hope that it gets back to the rails soon! No diesel lococmotive in the consist. The way it should be!
Soon, we'll be seeing these scenes again as early as next spring and as late as next fall.
At the speed the restoration has been going, It wouldn't surprise me if she was back up and running in the spring :)
She is the Queen. Very beautiful.
They had the exact same steam excursion behind the "J" Norfolk & Western 611 from Manassas, Va. to Lynchburg, Va. May 22, 1994.
The bridge over the James River at Lynchburg, VA. The train is departing Lynchburg on the return trip.
YEAH! I'VE BEEN DYING TO SEE THIS ENGINE RUN AGAIN! Bring it to the Reading, Harrisburg, and Pittsburgh Lines, and put it to work hauling special excursions or Office Car Specials in the Northeast.
Good lord, restore her now.
this beast will breath again!
btw fra rules suck these things ran millons apon millons of miles without problems with the stock settings, whatever errors there were, it was human error not faulty machinery as they claim
Gross Domestic Plums pps. that whistle gives
me eargasms
A great video from back in the day.[1st excursion program]. I say also,FIRE-UP-611.
Thanks a lot for this Video of the J!
She is really wonderful!!
Nice!
The whistle makes cool sounds at 8:19
The 611 carries a Hancock long bell 3 chime.....such a sweet sound.
Awesome video! BRING BACK 611!!!!!
Thanks! awesome video.
I hope there will be a triple header with the 611,844,and. The 4449. Probably wont happen but would be neat to see.
Traingeek 833 #611 is back up and running!
that's the whistle of the big boy 4014.
It's the same model, not the same whistle. It's called a Hancock long-bell three chime and was very common in the late steam era. It could handle steam pressures higher than 250 PSI without overblowing and squealing. 4014, 844, 4449, 611 and many other locomotives carried that model of whistle.
@@yankinga i like it .
@@yankinga What whistle you like .
That's the Whistle of Big boy 4014.
No, it is the exact same model whistle carried on all the Js and also the K class Mountains of the N&W, an off-the-shelf Hancock Long Bell Three-Chime, one of the most common whistles of the late steam era. All 175 of Union Pacific's big three classes, the Big Boys, Challengers and 800s carried that same model. So did the SP's Daylight engines. Probably a thousand or more engines of many different railroads wore the same model whistle.
the fact that people that wanted the loco back and got what they wanted is impressive!
I'm glad to see the old girl in here glory days and back and running again
but change the whistle for today in 2018! if they don't get the true sorrowful whistle from 1992 ima be mad!
NS....BRING HER BACK!
I was there that day!
if it is to steam again, it will need new flues and upgrades to the FRA Form 4.
lol video length 20:16