Bluefield Locomotive Shop
This is an early morning view of Norfolk Southern's Bluefield Locomotive shop in Bluefield VA/WVA on July 19, 1992. There's plenty of power around and behind me is plenty of coal to move. The NS merger between the Norfolk & Western Railway and the Southern Railway is now ten years old but there is still plenty of pre-merger equipment around just waiting to be relettered for the "new company" (note the N&W boxcar and the Southern boxcar). Just to the right in this slide, the concrete supports for the old coaling tower can be seen still supporting the tower 32 years after the last steam locomotive was refueled here. As of 2022, the coaling tower was still standing.
Fujichrome 100, Nikon N8008
Bluefield Locomotive Shop
This is an early morning view of Norfolk Southern's Bluefield Locomotive shop in Bluefield VA/WVA on July 19, 1992. There's plenty of power around and behind me is plenty of coal to move. The NS merger between the Norfolk & Western Railway and the Southern Railway is now ten years old but there is still plenty of pre-merger equipment around just waiting to be relettered for the "new company" (note the N&W boxcar and the Southern boxcar). Just to the right in this slide, the concrete supports for the old coaling tower can be seen still supporting the tower 32 years after the last steam locomotive was refueled here. As of 2022, the coaling tower was still standing.
Fujichrome 100, Nikon N8008