York’s No. 17 steam engine returns to New Freedom after a $400K FRA inspection; train rides resume in December.

For more than 70 years, misty mornings in the East Bay hills have been filled with uncanny sights and sounds for this day and age: hissing steam and echoing whistles, as small-yet-mighty locomotives ...

The Norfolk & Western Class J #611 steam locomotive is designated a National Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Design News had the ...

ROANOKE, Va. – Two brothers from Daleville grew up loving trains. This summer, they put their mechanic skills to work, helping restore the Norfolk and Western Class J Number 611 at the Virginia Museum ...

HUNTINGDON COUNTY, JUST WEST OF THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY, MAKING SOME HISTORY TODAY. INSTEAD OF BOARDING THE BIG YELLOW BUS, THEY GOT ON A STEAM LOCOMOTIVE BUILT MORE THAN A CENTURY AGO. NOW THAT’S THE ...

History buffs, rail fans, and leaf peepers will have a chance to experience a Virginia icon in the picturesque Shenandoah Valley this fall. The Norfolk and Western 611 steam locomotive will pull the ...

Fireman Duane Leonard feeds the firebox of N&W Class J locomotive No. 611. A charitable foundation is providing funding for firebox maintenance. Virginia Museum of Transportation/Guy Frick ROANOKE, Va ...

Another steam excursion train is scheduled to travel through Burke County in April. And this one will see the return of a legendary locomotive to the mountains. On Monday, the Virginia Museum of ...