Connection Crossing
January 24, 1991: Powered by four SD40-2's, a southbound loaded unit coal train screeches across the bridge connecting the former L&N Cumberland Valley Subdivision and the Southern Railway Appalachia District. This $7M bridge, built by Seaboard System and completed in 1986, obviated the need for the remainder of the CV main to Norton. Seen in the right background, this 12 mile section of track was unused after 1987, and was partially removed in 2017, a portion of which has become the popular Powell River Trail.
Scanned from original Kodak negative.
Connection Crossing
January 24, 1991: Powered by four SD40-2's, a southbound loaded unit coal train screeches across the bridge connecting the former L&N Cumberland Valley Subdivision and the Southern Railway Appalachia District. This $7M bridge, built by Seaboard System and completed in 1986, obviated the need for the remainder of the CV main to Norton. Seen in the right background, this 12 mile section of track was unused after 1987, and was partially removed in 2017, a portion of which has become the popular Powell River Trail.
Scanned from original Kodak negative.