In July 1993, three months after the death of Robert Claytor,. No. 611 pulled the NRHS Roanoke Chapter's 19th annual Independence Limited excursion, which arrived from Knoxville, Tennessee by SOU No. 4501 at Richlands, Virginia, bound for Fort Wayne, Indiana. Upon arrival in Fort Wayne, the excursion was transfer over to NKP Nos. 587 and 765, which took the train to Chicago for that year's NRHS Convention. Sometime after 1993, the No. 611 locomotive was added to the National Park Service's Historic American Engineering Record.
