Norfolk and Western No. 606

Norfolk & Western No. 606 was a 4-8-4 J class steam locomotive built in 1941 by the Roanoke Shops in Roanoke, Virginia for the Norfolk and Western Railroad.
No. 606, spent most of its working life hauling passenger trains, such as the Powhatan Arrow, the Pocahontas, and the Cavalier between Norfolk, Virginia and Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as ferrying Southern Railway's the Birmingham Special, the Pelican, and the Tennessean between Monroe, Virginia and Bristol, Tennessee.
In 1959, No. 606 was retired from service after the Norfolk & Western started to dieselize and was scrapped.
Category:Built in 1941
Category:Norfolk and Western locomotives
Category:Streamlined locomotives
Category:Locomotives
Category:Steam locomotives
Category:Tender locomotives
Category:Passenger locomotives
Category:Scrapped locomotives
Category:Scrapped steam locomotives
Category:4-8-4 steam locomotives
Category:4-8-4 locomotives
Category:American locomotives
Category:American steam locomotives
Category:Eight-coupled locomotives
Category:Standard gauge locomotives
Category:Standard gauge locomotives of the United States