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 Musuem and all that we have going on right now. 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! The latest special addition is our extremely rare 1923 Piedmont motor car, made here in Virginia in Lynchburg. Our friends at Star City Motor Madness bought it for us and donated it for display in our Advance Auto Parts Auto Gallery.
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!