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» April 23, 1985 |
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| Spring foliage is blossoming on this late April day in 1985 as a three-unit set of lite pushers drops downgrade across the Powell River near Big Stone Gap. Locals call this place "Roaring Branch," for the mountain stream by that name that tumbles down a narrow defile into the river just off to the right. This pusher crew shoved a southbound loaded train to Norton, VA, and then returned to Appalachia (about two miles upgrade from this point) for a meet with another southbound loaded train. Now, the crew is making a run for "home"--Loyall, Kentucky. This bridge finally lost its rails earlier this summer in a rails-to-trails project after being dormant since 1986. Seaboard System successor CSX has been sending its coal trains over a newer bridge across the valley less than a mile downstream beginning that year. |
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