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A drawing design of the N&W class J locomotive. After the outbreak of World War II, the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) mechanical engineering team developed a new locomotive—the streamlined class J 4-8-4 Northern—to handle rising mainline passenger traffic over the Blue Ridge Mountains, especially on steep grades in Virginia and West Virginia.
A drawing design of the N&W class J locomotive. In the late 1930s, the Norfolk and Western Railway's (N&W) K2 and K2a 4-8-2 "Mountains" could not handle the rising passenger traffic after the Great Depression abated, so the N&W opted for a more powerful and fancy-looking passenger steam locomotive.
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).
The accident injured 177 passengers; 18 were seriously injured and need to be airlifted to nearby hospitals in Norfolk, Virginia. The train was pulled by Norfolk and Western 611, a class J 4-8-4 steam locomotive, which was restored to operating condition for excursion service in 1982.
Robert Buckner Claytor (February 27, 1922 – April 9, 1993) was an American railroad administrator. He became President of the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1981 and was instrumental in the merger of the Southern Railway and the Norfolk & Western in 1982. [1]
Norfolk and Western magazine ad with system map, 1948. The Norfolk and Western Railway (reporting mark NW), [1] commonly called the N&W, was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982.
The successful No. 765-led excursions would pave the way for Norfolk Southern (NS) to continue the steam program with larger mainline locomotives like 4-8-4 Norfolk and Western 611. [ 8 ] In the 1980s, the locomotive appeared in the movies Four Friends and Matewan , and became an annual attraction in the New River Gorge operating the New River ...
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