Coalbank Hollow
Lhoist North America's Rockwood Turn crosses the trestle at Coalbank Hollow outside of Rockwood, Tennessee behind the railroad's only two EMDs for power. The ravine below the trestle as well as the junkyard in the foreground was once the site of the Roane Iron Company, an iron works founded by a pair of Union veterans after the Civil War. The company mined coal and iron along the ridge and transported it to its furnace and coke ovens a few hundred feet away via an in-plant narrow gauge railroad. The works shut down during the onset of the Great Depression in 1929.
Coalbank Hollow
Lhoist North America's Rockwood Turn crosses the trestle at Coalbank Hollow outside of Rockwood, Tennessee behind the railroad's only two EMDs for power. The ravine below the trestle as well as the junkyard in the foreground was once the site of the Roane Iron Company, an iron works founded by a pair of Union veterans after the Civil War. The company mined coal and iron along the ridge and transported it to its furnace and coke ovens a few hundred feet away via an in-plant narrow gauge railroad. The works shut down during the onset of the Great Depression in 1929.