After leaving homebase in Roanoke, Va., Monday morning, the locomotive tied down for the night in the division point of Shenandoah, Va., Monday night after an attempt to reach Enola Yard, just outside Harrisburg, Pa., on its way to the Strasburg Rail Road. A long freight train, 16T, with troublesome distributed power units and a broken coupler knuckle ahead of No. 611’s train changed that plan. The expectation today is that No. 611, running in tow behind a diesel due to the lack of positive train control and cab signals, will reach Enola, tie up, and complete its trip to America’s oldest short line on Wednesday.
No. 611 is arriving at Strasburg early for its annual inspection and to prepare for public events in late September and October. It will return to its home at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke in November.
