Cresting Elkhorn Grade, Norfolk Southern #4135 and #1079 cross Cooper's Trestle near Bramwell, WV on January 16, 2021. The bridge passing below the enormous steel and concrete Norfolk & Western st... (more)

Having passed through Bluefield, WV after an hour or so delay waiting for eastbound manifests and loaded coal trains to arrive and depart, Norfolk Southern 55W is heading west over the famed forme... (more)

I ended up chasing NS 19M from Roanoke, VA all the way out to the trestle at Coopers with the guidance of Michael Walton and Daniel Alls. This train had one of the friendliest crews I have ever e... (more)

The final shot of the chase of NS 743 is from the massive Coopers trestle in Bramwell, Wv.

A Norfolk Southern manifest train is seen headed East across Coolers Trestle in Bramwell, West Virginia on the former Norfolk & Western Pocahontas Division.

NS empty coal train 823 is seen headed West over Coopers Trestle in Bramwell, WV on a beautiful summer morning.

The final shot of NS 19M comes after it has left Bluefield. Here it is seen crossing the massive Cooper's Trestle in Bramwell, Wv. on the Pocahontas District. A great place to end a long chase wit... (more)

A long eastbound manifest thunders over Coopers Trestle in Bramwell, Wv on the Pocahontas District.

NS 195 thunders westbound over Coopers Trestle in Bramwell, Wv on the Pocahontas District.

NS 6D4 soars high above Bramwell, Wv on Cooper's Trestle with a pair of CSX YN2 GE's leading the way.

NS 194, with an SD70ACC leader, crosses over the massive trestle in Bramwell, Wv on the "Pokey".

The leaves are in peak color in Bramwell, Wv as NS 217 thunders across the Coopers trestle on the Pocahontas District. Up front is the Penn Central heritage unit...which could use a new coat of pa... (more)

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.