Norfolk and Western 611, nicknamed the Spirit of Roanoke and the Queen of Steam, is the only surviving Class J 4-8-4 Northern, one of fourteen streamlined passenger locomotives built by the railway. It left the Roanoke East End Shops in May 1950 as the twelfth of its class and hauled the Norfolk and Western's best passenger trains between Norfolk and Cincinnati. Retired in 1959 and put on display in Roanoke, it was restored by Norfolk Southern in 1982 and pulled excursions across much of the eastern and central United States until the program ended in 1994. It returned to excursion service in 2015, was donated to the Virginia Museum of Transportation, and is a state steam locomotive of Virginia and a National Register of Historic Places listing.
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Built in May 1950 at N&W's Roanoke (East End) Shops in Roanoke, Virginia, it was the twelfth member of its class and was also one of the last mainline passenger steam locomotives built in the United States, representing a pinnacle of American steam locomotive technology.
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Built in May 1950 at N&W's Roanoke (East End) Shops in Roanoke, Virginia, it was the twelfth member of its class and was also one of the last mainline passenger steam locomotives built in the United States, representing a pinnacle of American steam locomotive technology.
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Built in May 1950 at N&W's Roanoke (East End) Shops in Roanoke, Virginia, it was the twelfth member of its class and was also one of the last mainline passenger steam locomotives built in the United States, representing a pinnacle of American steam locomotive technology.
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Norfolk and Western 611, also known as the "Spirit of Roanoke" and the "Queen of Steam", is the only surviving example of Norfolk and Western's (N&W) class J 4-8-4 type "Northern" streamlined steam locomotives.
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Built in May 1950 at N&W's Roanoke (East End) Shops in Roanoke, Virginia, it was the twelfth member of its class and was also one of the last mainline passenger steam locomotives built in the United States, representing a pinnacle of American steam locomotive technology.
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Built in May 1950 at N&W's Roanoke (East End) Shops in Roanoke, Virginia, it was the twelfth member of its class and was also one of the last mainline passenger steam locomotives built in the United States, representing a pinnacle of American steam locomotive technology.
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Norfolk and Western 611, also known as the "Spirit of Roanoke" and the "Queen of Steam", is the only surviving example of Norfolk and Western's (N&W) class J 4-8-4 type "Northern" streamlined steam locomotives.
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Norfolk and Western 611, also known as the "Spirit of Roanoke" and the "Queen of Steam", is the only surviving example of Norfolk and Western's (N&W) class J 4-8-4 type "Northern" streamlined steam locomotives.
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Norfolk and Western 611, also known as the "Spirit of Roanoke" and the "Queen of Steam", is the only surviving example of Norfolk and Western's (N&W) class J 4-8-4 type "Northern" streamlined steam locomotives.
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