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Norfolk & Western No. 606 was a 4-8-4 J class steam locomotive built in 1941 by the Roanoke Shops in Roanoke, Virginia for the Norfolk and Western Railroad.

No. 606, spent most of its working life hauling passenger trains, such as the Powhatan Arrow, the Pocahontas, and the Cavalier between Norfolk, Virginia and Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as ferrying Southern Railway's the Birmingham Special, the Pelican, and the Tennessean between Monroe, Virginia and Bristol, Tennessee.

In 1959, No. 606 was retired from service after the Norfolk & Western started to dieselize and was scrapped.

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