The northbound deadhead move of the 75th Annual Santa Train rolls across the impressive Copper Creek trestle just outside of Clinchport VA at sunrise, departing after the first of several photo st... (more)

Showtime At Copper Creek- CSXT's 75th Anniversary Christmas Train steps slowly across the Copper Creek trestle at Clinchport, Virginia for photographers with VLIX SD45 (CRR 3632) and VLIX F7A (... (more)

75 years in the making.

When you get to Copper Creek and the light is straight on the head end....go to the air! Q696 crosses over the high bridge at Copper Creek, passing parallel to the NS Appalachia District below.

NS train 710 using trackage rights over CSX rumbles south across the 1907 Clinchfield Railroad-built marvel known as Copper Creek Viaduct near Clinchport, VA.

The ex-Clinchfield's famed Copper Creek Viaduct provides a rippled reflection in Clinch River as the pushers on eastbound coal drag 722 approach the ex-Southern's much less impressive crossing of ... (more)

Just which railroad is which? On the much lower, less impressive trestle over Copper Creek, a CSX coal train utilizes NS trackage rights between Big Stone Gap, Va. and Frisco, Tenn. while on CSX's... (more)

Recently revived Q697 crosses Copper Creek Bridge on the trip from Kingsport to Shelby on a cool July afternoon.

Heading downgrade on their run from Kingsport, Tennessee to Shelby, Kentucky, northbound mixed freight Q697-28 crosses Copper Creek trestle just outside of Clinchport, VA. Time freight has returne... (more)

The Clinch River flows by as Copper Creek empties into the Clinch beneath Southern cab X549. The ex-Southern's much lower crossing of Copper Creek is dwarfed by the ex-Clinchfield's much more famo... (more)

Northbound empty coke train W222 crosses the Copper Creek Trestle on a hot July afternoon.

Northbound empty coke train W222 rolls Northbound across the massive Copper Creek Trestle, having just begun their trip from Kingsport to Shelby on the semi-idle Clinchfield mainline.

Unit coal train NS 722 crosses Copper Creek en route to a coal hungry southeastern power plant. The Clinchfield's famed Copper Creek Viaduct towers above NS 722.

A Yuma Turn, NS 607, traverses NS's much less impressive trestle over Copper Creek.

NS 4001 leads NS 744 across Copper Creek viaduct along the former Clinchfield.