In early 2013, the VMT helped raise $3.5 million to restore No. In late 1994, when liability insurance costs led NS to end its steam program, the locomotive was again retired and moved back to the VMT. It was often invoked as an icon of Roanoke and its railroading history. 611 was dedicated as a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). 611, signifies the locomotive as Roanoke Born, Roanoke Bred, and Roanoke Proud. Claytor, who was responsible for the restoration of No. Former N&W president and NS chairman Robert B. It became the main line star of the NS steam program, pulling excursion trains throughout the eastern United States. 611 was restored to operation by the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS), N&W's successor. 611 locomotive was donated to the Virginia Museum of Transportation (VMT), where it sat on display as the sole survivor of the class J locomotives. In early 1956, it was involved in an accident and was subsequently repaired until its retirement from revenue service in 1959. 611 was assigned to haul the N&W's premier passenger trains between Norfolk, Virginia, and Cincinnati, Ohio and to ferry the Southern Railway's (SOU) passenger trains between Lynchburg, Virginia, and Bristol, Tennessee. It was one of the last mainline passenger steam locomotives built in the United States and represents the pinnacle of steam locomotive technology. Norfolk and Western 611, also known as the "Spirit of Roanoke" and the "Queen of Steam", is a Norfolk and Western (N&W) class J 4-8-4 "Northern" streamlined steam locomotive built in May 1950 by the N&W's East End Shops in Roanoke, Virginia.
Virginia Museum of Transportation ( Fire Up 611! Committee) Norfolk and Western Railway→Norfolk Southern Railway 611 sitting on the turntable at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, North Carolina, on May 23, 2015Ĥ ft 8 + 1⁄ 2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gaugeĦ.5 t (6.4 long tons 7.2 short tons) of coal per hourġ1,975 US gallons (45,330 L) of water per hourġ4-inch (356 mm) Piston valves, 8.5-inch (216 mm) travel
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