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The Great 611 Steak Company restaurant in Roanoke is named for the locomotive, which appears on the restaurant's roadside sign. [247] [248] No. 611 was featured in the 2015 children's book Dash Dupree and the Queen of Steam. [154] [249] The 2016 feature-length documentary 611: American Icon chronicles the history of the locomotive. [250] [251]
These repairs left No. 611 in excellent condition when it was retired just three years later, which helped lead to its restoration to operating condition for excursion service in 1982 by N&W's successor Norfolk Southern (NS) and again in 2015 by the Virginia Museum of Transportation (VMT).
Pennsylvania Route 611 (PA 611) is a state highway in eastern Pennsylvania running 109.7 mi (176.5 km) from Interstate 95 (I-95) in the southern part of Philadelphia north to I-380 in Coolbaugh Township in the Pocono Mountains. Through most of Philadelphia, PA 611 follows Broad Street, the main north-south street in Philadelphia.
The Great Dismal Swamp train derailment occurred on the afternoon of May 18, 1986, when a special Norfolk Southern employee passenger train derailed at the Great Dismal Swamp near Suffolk, Virginia. The accident injured 177 passengers; 18 were seriously injured and need to be airlifted to nearby hospitals in Norfolk, Virginia.
One mile (1.6 km) later is a westbound exit and entrance for Virginia Drive. In Willow Grove, it reaches the PA 611 exit before crossing SEPTA's Warminster Line. [18] [19] The turnpike continues through suburban areas, entering Bucks County and a bridge over Norfolk Southern's Morrisville Line [19] [20] before crossing SEPTA's West Trenton Line.
The Norfolk and Western J class was a class of 14 4-8-4 "Northern" streamlined steam locomotives built by the Norfolk and Western Railway (N&W) at its Roanoke Shops in Roanoke, Virginia, between 1941 and 1950.
The 7-year-old girl who survived after being shot by her mother alongside her three sisters in a murder-suicide has now died.. Police in Wyoming believe Tranyelle Harshman shot her four daughters ...
Right now, the 611 is on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania until further notice. 611fan2001 14:34, 20 February 2023 (UTC) Ok, thank you. 70.188.111.54 15:52, 22 February 2023 (UTC) I heard that No. 611 will be leaving the SRC probably at the end of May or the start of June.