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The museum was initially housed in an old Norfolk & Western Railway freight depot on the banks of the Roanoke River. The earliest components of the museum's collection included a United States Army Jupiter rocket and the J class steam locomotive No. 611 , donated by Norfolk & Western to the city of Roanoke, where many of its engines were built.
Opened in January 2004, the museum is housed in a former Norfolk & Western Railway passenger train station in downtown Roanoke, Virginia. Originally built in 1905, the building was renovated in 1949 by industrial designer Raymond Loewy , and is one of three contributing structures to the Norfolk and Western Railway Company Historic District ...
Today, #1218 is on static display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Virginia; #611 has been restored to working order for the VMT by the North Carolina Transportation Museum; N&W class Y6a #2156 has been brought to Roanoke from the National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri; and Class M #475 continues to operate ...
A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can also include air transport or waterborne transport items, along with educational displays and other old transport objects. [1]
No. 1218 is the sole survivor of the Norfolk and Western's class A locomotives and the only surviving 2-6-6-4 steam locomotive in the world. While smaller than Union Pacific's famous and more numerous "Challenger" class of 4-6-6-4 locomotives, Norfolk and Western's design racked up unmatched records of performance in service.
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.
N&W 620 remains in operation at the N.C. Transportation Museum. Originally in the black freight color scheme, she was repainted to tuscan in 1986 to reflect her role in pulling the museum's passenger train. EMD GP9: B-B: 10–13: 1955: 4: Renumbered 710–713 in 1956 EMD GP9: B-B: 714–761: 1956–1957: 48: EMD GP9: B-B: 762–767 (1st) 1957: 6
Southern Railway: Roanoke and Southern Railway: N&W: 1887 1896 Norfolk, Roanoke and Southern Railroad: Roanoke Valley Railroad: SOU: 1850 1880 Richmond and Mecklenburg Railroad: Roaring Fork Railroad: 1904 Rockbridge Alum and Goshen Railroad: 1889 Rosslyn Connecting Railroad: RC PRR: 1904 1969 Penndel Company: Seaboard Air Line Railroad: SAL ...