Tyson is right - the photo was shot by O. Winston Link. He still is famous for his excellent night shots. For one shot he installed up to 60 flash bulbs - the BIG sized ones! - along the track. He had parabolic reflectors constructed, containing up to 18 bulbs each. If you look at the picture, you see three of these reflectors as black dots below the second cylinder set, the tender and the auxiliary water tender of the loco.
He concentraded on the N&W and made dozens of fantastic shots. Jim, this one is an A-type 2-6-6-4, #1242, which was used for passenger service as well as for fast freight trains - this is train 77 or 78 on the Pocahontas division.
The scene on the screen is from a movie about fighter pilots in the Korean war, "Hot Shot". I'm not quite sure if this is a F86 or a Mig-15 - they look quite similar from that angle. And of course both appeared in that movie.
BTW, O. Winston Link placed a young couple (Willie Allen and Dorothy Christian) in his own convertible and told them to do a bit of huggin' while he fired his shot.
I found these informations in the book "Steam, Steel and Stars" containing 90 of his fantastic shots, of course by O. Winston Link (and text by Tim Hensley). It appeared 1987, although Link made his photographs in the mid-50s! Perhaps you still find a copy somewhere.
Thank you Jim for posting this picture. I grabbed my copy from the bookshelf, and this evening I'll leave through it once more.
Ron