The 611 was built and designed in Roanoke by the Norfolk and Western Railway. It’s considered one of the finest steam locomotives in the world. This fall, the 611 will conduct a series of passenger ...

Staunton, Va. (WVIR) - The famed Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 steam locomotive is returning to Virginia’s rails this ...

Norfolk Southern will rebuild a key section of track east of Asheville, officials confirmed Tuesday. The plan may pave the way for the eventual return of passenger rail service to Western North ...

But the queen of all Norfolk and Western Railway’s steam locomotives — the streamlined 611 — will be running weekend excursions between Goshen and Staunton from October 6 to November 5. And that ...

Hamblen Jefferson Cocke Greene 5 months after Helene, a railway that connects Cocke County to Western North Carolina is being rebuilt Norfolk Southern is installing sections of the railway.

"The Thunder of Steam in the Blue Ridge" is a 1973 black and white film that documents the Norfolk & Western Railway's steam locomotives in the scenic Blue Ridge region of Virginia. Utilizing an ...

In western Pennsylvania, just over the border from East Palestine, a report on rail bridges aims to raise the alarm about the state of aging infrastructure.

Justice & Health Norfolk Southern Rail Bridges in Western Pennsylvania in Disrepair, Study Warns The company dismissed the findings of a new report on 20 rail bridges in the Pittsburgh area.

South Western Railway will become the first operator to be taken back into public ownership in the biggest shake-up of the industry for decades. The SWR network, which connects Surrey, Hampshire ...

Since 1820, hundreds of railroad companies were built, merged, reorganized, and consolidated into what eventually became NS, which itself was created from the consolidation of Southern Railway and ...