N&W 611 Restoration Thread

southern154 · **Joined:** Mon Jun 24, 2013 12:54 pm **Posts:** 320

The Fire Up 611 facebook page just put a video up of the crew working on getting the valve gear and the cylinders and whatever else back together. All the rods are back on! Painting is complete and shows so in the video except the front part of the running board. Thank You to the entire crew for making this lifelong dream come true!

southern154 · **Joined:** Mon Jun 24, 2013 12:54 pm **Posts:** 320

Are they going to move her any? or is that set for a later date?

TimReynolds · **Joined:** Sat Aug 31, 2013 4:11 pm **Posts:** 287

up on youtube...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZaNa9rlclU

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Sun May 10, 2015 3:22 am

She's alive again. . .

What else can one say?

Thanks NS, Spencer, and everyone else. . .

dinwitty · **Joined:** Wed Oct 22, 2008 8:18 pm **Posts:** 2226

some leg stretchen...checkin it all out.

Richard Glueck · **Posted:** Sun May 10, 2015 3:16 pm

Kudos to Scott Lindsay!

railfan261 · **Joined:** Fri Apr 27, 2012 6:30 pm **Posts:** 226

Three Rebel yells for the 611! :-) Man does it look good to see her in motion again. I wish I was there to see her move in person, but my mom had a stroke last month, so I am tied to the Gopher State for the immediate future. (Don't worry, she is pulling through it and will come out as rehabbed as the 611.)

wesp · **Posted:** Thu May 21, 2015 1:23 pm

Looking at the feed on TRAINS newswire, I'll take 40 mph over no mph any day. Thank you Mr. Moorman for bringing back mainline steam in the east.

Wesley

TimReynolds · **Joined:** Sat Aug 31, 2013 4:11 pm **Posts:** 287

I was snake bit catching the live feed. every time 611 would come into view my mobile would lock up @#^%#@!! I did catch the change of plans in Salisbury. She couldn't make it around the wye because of a track alignment issue from recent track work. Cab and tender too close for comfort. So she backed up and returned to Spencer in reverse. Now either the train gets sent back down to turn it or they do it one car at a time in Spencer on the table.

Becky Morgan · **Joined:** Tue Jun 22, 2010 4:22 pm **Posts:** 495

Same luck here. We had a tiny bit of extra bandwidth so I tried to watch, the feed cut out, and when I came back they were chatting about how great the Thomasville runby was and moving on to the next spot. No matter--somebody got video and I got to hear her whistle.

whodom · **Posted:** Thu May 21, 2015 6:33 pm

TimReynolds wrote:

I was snake bit catching the live feed. every time 611 would come into view my mobile would lock up @#^%#@!! I did catch the change of plans in Salisbury. She couldn't make it around the wye because of a track alignment issue from recent track work. Cab and tender too close for comfort. So she backed up and returned to Spencer in reverse. Now either the train gets sent back down to turn it or they do it one car at a time in Spencer on the table.

I'm pretty sure that's not correct, because I caught one of the last legs of the live feed (Duke Hill?) and 611 was pointed forwards headed back towards Spencer.

At any rate, it's great to see it out operating again.

bbaker · **Joined:** Tue Mar 25, 2014 9:52 am **Posts:** 31

Finally a video of 611 at decent speed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2ZgZGbqohg

That is a pretty quick looking 40mph......

.....and a special thanks to involved in making this happen!

TimReynolds · **Joined:** Sat Aug 31, 2013 4:11 pm **Posts:** 287

As a veteran of many trips from Atlanta to Toccoa, I got to watch her ease around the wye in Toccoa. If 2-10-4 #610 could do it then so could 611. They greased the rails just in case. Here she is on 11/2/1986 (being pulled backwards through) correction: pulling herself through the tight curve of the wye.

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That must have been some realignment "kink" in Salisbury...
Anyhow here she is getting underway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XA_EZipfi4
And running free!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aioi5D7__5c

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Thu May 21, 2015 9:12 pm

Jeff Lisowski wrote:

Man, what a sight to see 611 with that all Tuscan Red consist this morning on the live feed.

First time on the mainline since 1994.

http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.p ... 654&nseq=4

And NO DIESELS!! Hooray!!

I'm not knocking NS's heritage fleet, but that's the way things should be!!!

J3a-614 · **Posted:** Thu May 21, 2015 9:27 pm

bbaker wrote:

Finally a video of 611 at decent speed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2ZgZGbqohg

That is a pretty quick looking 40mph......

.....and a special thanks to involved in making this happen!

Where did it go? Where did it go? It was just here and now it isn't.