If you want to see the 6-11 train make its way through our area again, you better act fast. Tickets for the excursions leaving from Roanoke just went on sale. Officials say about 70%of the tickets to ...

Built in Appalachia in 1950, N&W 611 is still beloved around the world in 2025. The Queen of Steam returned to the rails Friday for passenger excursions, a highly anticipated return from the community ...

The Queen of Steam is one high maintenance locomotive. Especially when she's doing about 11 excursions a year. All four excursions out of Roanoke were 99% sold out. The 611 still has three excursions ...

ROANOKE, Va. – Changes could be in store for future 611 steam locomotive excursions. The Steam Queen was recognized this week as the official steam locomotive of Virginia. That recognition was earned ...

The famed Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611 steam locomotive will return to service this fall for limited passenger excursions. The 611, owned and operated by the Virginia Museum of Transportation, is ...

The Class J 611 steam passenger locomotive, which was restored in Spencer in 2014-2015, will be pulling excursion train trips from Spencer to Lynchburg, Va., and Asheville in April. The locomotive ...

SPENCER — The rail enthusiast looks at the Class J 611 steam locomotive, and he sees power, majesty, engineering, the bullet nose, the Tuscan red stripe, the giant wheels, the gleaming rods and the ...

Southwest Virginia rail fans hoping for an opportunity to ride in a passenger car pulled by the Norfolk & Western Class J 611 steam engine will have that chance this year, but they will have to travel ...

There was nothing like it.” The 611 was among the N&W’s last steam locomotives. Built in 1950, she pulled the Powhatan Arrow, the famed passenger train, between Norfolk and Cincinnati. She was retired ...

The Virginia Scenic Railway announced July 9 in a press release that a joint venture between the Virginia Scenic Railway, The Virginia Museum of Transportation, Inc., the Steam Railroading Institute ...