Top of the Clinchfield

Just 6 feet shy of being the highest mountain pass on CSX (second to Altamont, MD on the Mountain Subdivision at 2,629’), Clinchfield’s 1,865’ Ridge Tunnel at the top of the loops is no stranger to a struggling northbound; this time in the form of aging CW44 CSXT # 136 reaching the highest elevation on the CRR with time freight M652.

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