Photos of My Favorite Steam Locomotives

[TomPM]

Here are some photos of my favorite steam engines in action.

Location : Bluefield, WV
Train: NRHS Special
Locomotive: N&W A 1218
Date: 1987

 

[TomPM]

Here are some more photos of my favorite steam engines in action.

Location : Virginia
Train: NRHS Special
Locomotive: N&W J 611
Date: 1987

 

[TomPM]

Here are some pictures on what I consider the my greatest day railfaning. NS shut down their mainline between Roanoke and Radford and played with their trains. The A was pulling 50 empty hoppers and the J was pulling 19 cars.

Location : Salem, VA
Train: NRHS Special
Locomotive: N&W J 611 & A 1218
Date: 1987

 

[TomPM]

Here is another photo on that great day.

Location : Salem, VA
Train: NRHS Special
Locomotive: N&W J 611 & A 1218
Date: 1987

 

[TomPM]

Here they are retiring for the night:

Location : Roanoke, VA
Train: NRHS Special
Locomotive: N&W J 611 & A 1218
Date: 1987

 

[interurban]

Hi Tom,

these are realy great action photo`s I can smell the engine`s and here the steam .


Must have been one great Day to remember.

 

[60103]

Roanoake

Tom:
I like both those locos. I never saw them in action, even on the steam specials.
When I went to the Roanoke museum, 611 had been taken away for refurbishing, but 1218 was there. It was a very relaxed museum; they suggested that I crawl all over anything. Even got inside GG1 and E unit.