This was a special plow train to test Rotary OM, which had just been rebuilt by the C&TS shops. OM was built in 1889 by Cooke Locomotive & Machine Works.
CSXT 253 leads this eastbound coal train across the James River and passes the Cushaw Dam in Amherst County. If you look close you can see the old piers to the bridge that carried the orignal alin... (more)