Valve popping as 611 gets underway for the trip back to Roanoke. Newspaper article describing the opening of the building seen next slide.         
This was N&W's last passenger station. Opened when Union Station in downtown Lynchburg was abandoned late December 1964. Amtrak stopped here March 25, 1975 - Sep. 30, 1979. Their "Mountaineer" and "Hilltopper" trains.
Date: 5/7/2016 Location: Lynchburg, VA   Map Show Lynchburg on a rail map Views: 124 Collection Of:   G. R. Harper
Locomotives: NW 611(4-8-4)    Author:  G. R. Harper
Valve popping as 611 gets underway for the trip back to Roanoke. Newspaper article describing the opening of the building seen next slide.
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