With the morning sun casting light into the valley, 195 makes its way across the famous Coopers Trestle with the lead 3 motors online and smoking it up!
NS 83J with 110 loads has a stop signal just west of Flat Top yard, leaving the train stopped on the main line waiting to do a hill start once the main is clear again.
The Norfolk & Western heritage unit pulls pusher duty on home rails, seen here pushing a loaded coal train up the Elkhorn Grade into Bluefield Yard with the assistance of NS 8100, the Nickel Plate... (more)
Westbound mixed freight 189 is broad-sided by evening sun as it exits the tunnel and passes onto the huge viaduct at Coopers, just east of Bramwell, WV.
NS 8033 works a loaded coal train across the massive bridge spanning the valley above the small community of Coopers just west of Bluefield.
On an overcast October 22, 2014, Norfolk Southern intermodal train 217 hauls containers through the mountains in the community of Coopers, just outside of Bramwell, WV.
In nice light and cool morning air, the Independence Limited crosses above Bramwell, WV enroute from Bluefield, WV to Portsmouth, OH.
Four NS GEs roll a westbound empty coal/grain train across the Bluestone Branch at Coopers (Bramwell).