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Another steam icon, N&W 611, heads for restoration
Written by William C. Vantuono, Editor-in-Chief“The Spirit of Roanoke”—Norfolk & Western Class J 611, which has sat silently at the Virginia Museum of Transportation for the past 20 years—will soon be headed to Spencer, N.C., for restoration by the North Carolina Transportation Museum.