Model J # 611 last steam engine.SECOND TRY

Gary
I just had to share this picture. I've had it since the 80's from a GE calender. For more info on this train goto dieselpunks.org/profiles/blogs/sunday-streamline-34-local
In 1958 and 1959, the railroad ran several farewell to steam excursions, with 611 pulling the last one in October 1959. While many of the locomotives went to the scrap lines, 611 was more fortunate, in part due to its superb condition after 1956 derailment and subsequent repair, and also in no small part to the efforts of O. Winston Link, the famous photographer, whose offer to purchase 611 himself, rather than see it scrapped, practically embarrassed N&W into donating it for posterity.