WELCOME FROM THE DIRECTOR
Beverly T. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Executive Director
We are having a great time at the Virginia Museum of Transportation. We really appreciate you dropping by our website to learn about Virginia's Official Transportation Museum and all that we have going on right now as we approach our fiftieth anniversary year! We are always interested in your thoughts and ideas about how we can better serve our visitors.
The Museum is located in Roanoke, Virginia, one of America's great rail centers and home of the original headquarters of the Norfolk & Western Railway for 100 years. The legendary Roanoke Shops of the N&W designed and built the most modern and powerful steam engines in the world. The N&W's employees combined hard work and incredible talents to hone these great locomotives known worldwide for their muscle. The last two left of the J and the A series, 611 and 1218, are here at the Museum. To see them together will take your breath away!
We are always changing at the Virginia Museum of Transportation and hope you will come visit us soon. There is always something new to see! We've been working hard to begin to cosmetically restore the marvelous equipment in our Rail Yard. You'll see fresh paint on about a quarter of our collection by this summer.
Please come share your transportation stories, and experience the fun of learning about all kinds of transportation that connect Virginia and the nation to the world!