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The Real Thing! The N&W “J” Class Northerns As They Really Were

Here’s the Norfolk and Western’s J Class Northern pulling the train for which it was designed: The streamlined “Powhatan Arrow” between Portsmouth and Roanoke. Plenty of other ‘J’ class 4-8-4s on the “Cavalier”, the “Pocahontas”, the “Tennessean”, etc. You’ll also get a 60 MPH trip over some of the toughest grades in the East with multiple meets, passings and overtaking on parallel track of other ‘J’s and A and Y class articulateds. This is a contribution of signal importance to rail history.

For comparison we’ve added our best seller, “The Mighty J." This features the N&W 611 with a perfectly matched maroon consist, almost identical to yesterday’s “Powhatan Arrow” en route from Birmingham to Roanoke. Helicopter shots concentrate on the mammoth Toccoa Viaduct and the other great trestles en route.

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