with other N&W trains from south of Roanoke which traveled east from Roanoke, this overnight train continued north from Roanoke along the Shenandoah Valley Route, via Waynesboro, VA. Sleeping car passengers would be able to take the trip continuously, without a change of coach in Harrisburg. Cannon Ball (New York – Norfolk in conjunction with Pennsylvania Railroad, Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad, and the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad). Birmingham Special (New York – Birmingham, Alabama in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Railroad and Southern Railway). The Pelican (New York – New Orleans in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Railroad and Southern Railway). The Tennessean (New York – Memphis in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Railroad and Southern Railway). The last three were unusual in that the Southern Railway operated the trains, either side of the N&W stretch between Lynchburg and Bristol. The Norfolk-bound trains arrived at Norfolk Terminal Station, which also served as the N&W company offices. Steam locomotive types on the Norfolk and Western Class A: 2-6-6-4 simple articulated Top Speed: 70 mph Class Y1 though Y6b: 2-8-8-2 Mallet Top Speed: 60 mph Class J: 4-8-4 Top Speed: 110 mph Classes K1 and K2: 4-8-2 Mountain Top Speed: 80 mph Classes M, M1, and M2: 4-8-0 Mastodon Top Speed: 55 mph Class S1: 0-8-0 switchers Top Speed: 50 mph Class Z1: 2-6-6-2 Top Speed: 60 mph Class E1: 4-6-2 Top Speed: 65 mph Class E2: 4-6-2 Top Speed: 70 mph Class W: 2-8-0 Top Speed: 45 mph Surviving steam locomotives The N&W had run excursion trains since its first days of passenger traffic, and deliberately powered them with steam engines after 1960, when most other trains had been switched to diesels. The excursion trains were powered by several of the N&W's famous steam locomotives, including J class #611 and A class #1218. The practice continued after the 1982 merger, under the first president of the merged Norfolk Southern, Robert B. Claytor, but was finally halted in 1994. Today, #1218 is on static display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Virginia; locomotive #611 has been restored to working order for the VMT by the North Carolina Transportation Museum; N&W class Y6a #2156 has been brought to Roanoke from the National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri; and Class M #475 continues to operate at the Strasburg Railroad in Strasburg, Pennsylvania, where 611 will participate in Fall 2019 for the "Reunion