N&W 611 Greensboro to Charlottesville and Greensboro to Asheville Oct 1994
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- 10/15/94 Greensboro, NC to Charlottesville, VA: Pacing along US 29 north of Yadkin, NC, Blairs VA, Chatham, Alta Vista
611 ran Greensboro-Lynchburg-Greensboro only. Diesel-hauled Lynchburg-Charlottesville-Lynchburg
10/16/94 Greensboro, NC to Asheville, NC: Salisbury, Celanese Rd. near Barber, Pacing along US 70, Catawba River Bridge, Conover, Hildebrand, The Loops, Azalea, Biltmore Wye, Asheville Yard.
Hi8 Master recording
Just now watched this. It sure is great work. Brings back memories of chasing 611 and 1218 back in the late 80's. Also 4501
Great photography, sound, and edit! Thanks for,posting.
Henry Lee Appreciate your kind feedback. Thank you for watching.
Thank GOD she is coming back. Some animals weren't meant to be caged.
I'm riding behind 611 for the very first time June 4 in Virginia. I didn't ride it last year, as I rode behind 765 out of Bethlehem, PA near me and we couldn't afford two expensive train trips two months apart. I never rode any of the old NS excursions through 1994. I heard 611 had a bad choice of whistle last year but this year a better one that sounds like it's old whistle. The trips originating in NC are much longer than the trips originating in Roanoke and Manassas, VA this year.
Fantastic video! I see you paced it along Ruffin,NC one of my stomping grounds indeed! Thank you for sharing this video and how much has changed in 18 years!
Can't wait to see her run again. Counting the days till she leaves Roanoke for Spencer and Mr. Lindsay and his crew work their magic.
Thank you so much for uploading this! The first time I've seen steam go through my hometown!!! Made my day. I'll be watching over and over, this is such a great thing for young people like me to see.
Poetry in motion...
Some of the best 611 pace scenes EVER! Love the sound, hopefully someday we can make some new video's of her!!
Thanks a lot for this Video of the J!
If a private organization foots the bill they better bring a big check book...I miss those days. She was something to see....and hear!
great shots, steam at it's finest.
Phenomenal video. Can't wait to chase 611 when she returns to the high iron!
Penn Rail Videos Thank you for your comments. Glad you enjoyed it.
I absolutely love this video! Would really like to see her get out on the rails again. 2 more years will be 20 since she hit the rails running!
David Ramsey, yes she is.
Tough as John Wayne, Beautiful as Miss America.
At 7:14 mark she sounds like a jet engine! Absolutely beautiful and amazing how she and her sadly scrapped 13 sisters could run like that for long distances.
Before she goes to get restored, you might want to get some pictures of the 611 with a whole bunch of streamlined diesels at the "streamliners at spencer" event going between may 29th and june 1st. I just might be able to go. Woohoo!
yankina, I will be riding on the 611 this memorial day. Monday the 29th. first time on a Steam Locomotive, I can't wait.
How lucky I can find this train?
I too would love to see the J611 back under steam. For those interested, there is a "Bring Back the J611" page on Facebook, the more people that show an interest the more likely that NS might decide to think seriously about the 611.
Yes sir, 844 was converted in the forties i think (I could be wrong). As I'm to understand UP converted 3985 to oil in 90 or 91 because of coal ciders starting fires track side.
Man i'm in love with that train
That makes a lot of us, I'm sure.
Beautiful
That following Sunday on October 23 of 94 she went from Asheville NC to Spartanburg SC and back with southern 4610 and two Norfolk southern diesels she made the grade that afternoon on Sunday and didn't stall on the grade she will never be on the grade again the rails is in awful shape they are in and have trees and weeds grow all over the rails I wish she made more runs on the grade
The Pennsylvania Railroad borrowed and tested her sister 610 from 12/6/44 through 1/3/45. A sustained speed of 110 MPH was recorded on one of the test runs.
She was restricted to 40 MPH for most of her excursion career after an incident on May 18, 1986. She was hauling an Employee Appreciation Special when the third passenger car on the train picked a switch causing a major derailment with injuries. The locomotive itself did not contribute in any way to the accident.
That's awesome! One day, she'll be running excursions again with NS ES44AC #8103 (N&W Heritage) behind her.
Yeah, that would be an awesome idea!
Really guys? You think she needs some ugly brick of a GE diesel behind her? I don't.
yankinga I'd love to see her on her own too, but insurance makes it much harder. Ill settle for seeing her run with the N&W Heritage Units.
aren't you that guy that kept sending me lenny faces on DA
The very last scene shows a clamshell bucket crane loading coal into the tender.
I may or may not be using this video as a reference for chasing Saturday's excursion from Spencer to Asheville.
At 2:33 all I could think was "Man look at that kudzu!".
This would be awesome to see again. I hear that 611 MIGHT pull some 21st Century Steam excursions for Norfolk Southern in 2014 IF the restoration is completed this year. They are sending it to NTCM for the restoration work. NS will probably lease it from the VMT like they're doing with the other locomotives from TVRM 630, 4501, and Fort Wayne RR Historical Society Nickel Plate Road 765.
The reason i asked i read or saw on TV that UP fries there`s with Oil
Awesome video!
Also, there's a town that has the same name as my last name?! That's also awesome! :)
Coal fired. An oil fired J would be anathema in Pocahontas coal country.
Sounds like 4014!
That's because it's the same model 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.
Is Charlottesville north of Lynchburg and south of Manassas and Alexandria?
Yes
I live near Greensboro so is the line between Greensboro via Lynchburg to Charlottesville still NS?
Yes
Was she coal or oil fired when they brought her back the UP engines were oil fired.
N&W power on ex Southern Ry track
The reason i asked read somewhere UP convert there`s to oil fried
Word around the camp fire is NS won't foot the bill to rebuild or run her(I can't blame them) but if a someone or some group has the cash then NS would run her. so...who's got $500,000 to $1,000,000? she'd be under steam if I had it.
CSX needs to get a life and have their own steam program with C&O 614, etc. They suck for banning steam and railfan excursions from their tracks.
I think if anyone tired to convert her to oil they wouldn't live long enough to see her fired haha.