Bachmann 53253 "N" Scale RailFan N&W # 611(black, maroon) - Econami DCC Sound Value - Spectrum(R) (Scale=N) Part#160-53253

Bachmann 532531 N&W Class J 4-8-4 Steam #611 Norfolk & Western(Railfan Version, black, maroon) Soundtraxx Econami-Sound Value Bachmann Industries (SCALE=N) Part#=160-53253 #611. The real #611 is still active and visiting US Cities today.

Norfolk & Western 611 is a 4-8-4 "Class J" steam locomotive and perhaps the most advanced such Northern ever built (generally the 4-8-4 design was known as Northerns but the N&W built their own and classed them as Js). The N&W began building its 4-8-4s around the start of World War II in 1941 and would ultimately come to own fourteen such designs, which were built exclusively for passenger service receiving streamlining either when they were first out-shopped or later, after the war. An extremely well-built variant of the 4-8-4 arrangement, the variant was a product of Norfolk & Western's own shop forces in Roanoke, Virginia.