NS S1N rolls north across the Amonate, VA trestle on NS's Dry Fork Branch.

81M crosses the high bridge at Amonate on the Dry Fork with a loaded Duke coal train.

In the middle of a strangely warm December, Norfolk Southern's Nickel Plate and Lehigh Valley Heritage units shove hard on the rear of Q44 as they cross Amonate Trestle on the Dry Fork Branch.

NS Heritage Unit 8114 takes empties downgrade over the Trace Fork Trestle near Amonate, Virginia on the first day of October.

Photographer- unknown- from my personal collection. 35mm Anscochrome slide. July 11, 1959 finds Y6b 2174 performing a photo run by at the giant Trace Fork viaduct on the Dry Fork Branch of the ... (more)

On this beautiful autumn evening, 80A assaults the 1.8% grade on its way towards Cedar Bluff, VA along the Dry Fork Branch.

At dusk, a heavy southbound loaded coal train weighing 13,000 tons, crawls across massive Trace Fork Viaduct in Amonate, Va., with locomotives in notch-8 permeating the late afternoon air, while a... (more)

A lengthy train of empty hoppers(en-route to Auville Yard in Iaeger) creep across the massive Trace Fork Viaduct in Amonate, Va., along the former Norfolk & Western Dry Fork Branch. Originating at... (more)

High up in the sky at Amonate, Va., No. 745 eases across the massive Trace Fork viaduct on the former Norfolk and Western Dry Fork Branch, while trekking north toward Iaeger with a train of emptie... (more)

Under threatening skies, rainbow colored ridges, and down to a literal crawl, pusher set J61 shoves hard uphill over the massive Trace Fork trestle enroute to Cedar Bluff. Undergoing tests with th... (more)

This WB mty train creeps over this massive structure enroute to the yard at Iaeger.

Conrail led coal drag 81M slows to a crawl as it approaches the summit at Bandy, crossing over Trace Branch several times enroute. On the rear is a pusher set, needed on this trip to Cedar Bluff a... (more)

Conrail led 81M crests the summit at Bandy Tunnel, enroute to the Clinch Valley and Cedar Bluff. Fall has arrived in the southern coalfields of Appalachia.

Showing the sheer size and height of the Trace Branch trestle, pushers for mine run U39 shove toward Cedar Bluff on the Dry Fork Branch of the Pocahontas Division. Speed here is down to barely a w... (more)

Pushers shoving hard on the rear as a coal drag crosses Trace Branch on the Dry Fork of the Pocahontas on a rainy, foggy day. The head end is near the Dry Fork #3 tunnel at Bandy.