Fall's Beginning at Big Lawson
NS U48 is soaring above the valley near Saint Paul, Virginia, as they cross the massive Big Lawson Trestle, in Lawson Hollow, Virginia. The train is forwarding empty cars to E Dillon Company in Swords Creek just up the road. This is the former Norfolk and Western Railroad's Clinch Valley District that serves the many coal mines between Bluefield, West Virginia, and Norton, Virginia. Today Norfolk Southern utilizes it for the same purposes. Big Lawson trestle is one in a series of high bridges that the N&W constructed as they crossed Bull Mountain just west of Saint Paul. Behind me to the east are Little Lawson, Kennedy, and Holbrook trestles. Taken in Fall 2021.
Fall's Beginning at Big Lawson
NS U48 is soaring above the valley near Saint Paul, Virginia, as they cross the massive Big Lawson Trestle, in Lawson Hollow, Virginia. The train is forwarding empty cars to E Dillon Company in Swords Creek just up the road. This is the former Norfolk and Western Railroad's Clinch Valley District that serves the many coal mines between Bluefield, West Virginia, and Norton, Virginia. Today Norfolk Southern utilizes it for the same purposes. Big Lawson trestle is one in a series of high bridges that the N&W constructed as they crossed Bull Mountain just west of Saint Paul. Behind me to the east are Little Lawson, Kennedy, and Holbrook trestles. Taken in Fall 2021.