"Forward Progress" Despite a 09:00 scheduled departure from its Monday night stay in Manassas, the N&W 611 ferry move from Spencer, NC to Leaman Place, PA didn’t O.S. Maugansville until 17:44 on Tuesday. Here the N&W “J” Class is just 3.2 miles short of its return to the Commonwealth, for a summer-long schedule of events at the Strasburg Rail Road. Eastbound MOW traffic on the “B” Line, opposing manifest and intermodal traffic on the “H” Line north of Front Royal, a crew change at Vardo, a “train fire” investigation by the Hagerstown Fire Department, and the opposing CSX local (NS KH00) on the Lurgan, were a few of the impediments to NS 955’s forward progress.
