JANUARY 2016 VOLUME 35, NO. 1
32 CLINCHFIELD COUNTRY: Clinchfield’s Rex Turn rolls through Delano, Va., with a mixed bag of EMD power on April 22, 1980. This colorful mountain railroad was an important conduit for Appalachian coal until the end of 2015. PHOTO BY RON FLANARY
28 King Coal has Lost His Crown/Patrick Yough The dramatic shift in the domestic coal market can be traced back to the Conrail split of 1999 and strengthened emissions legislation
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32 A Death in the Family/Eric Miller and Ron Flanary Once a thriving conduit for Appalachian coal, CSX has shut down 22 miles of the former Clinchfield and severs the line as a through route
40 From Rail to River/Mike Biehn Transkentucky Transportation, Inc., is known as a stronghold for GE power shuttling coal and limestone from loadout to river transload
48 Virginian Farewell/Samuel Phillips An impressive piece of mountain railroading falls silent in West Virginia as Norfolk Southern mothballs a portion of the Princeton-Deepwater route
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66 Down on the Pokey/Steve Barry While the number of trains on the old Norfolk & Western may be reduced, the scenic beauty of this region of West Virginia is the draw
The sun sets on the massive Black Lick Trestle in Kegley, W. Va., as Norfolk Southern train U87 climbs upgrade
toward Princeton with
100 cars of domestic coal bound for Chesapeake, Va., on December 1, 2012. Samuel Phillips takes us trackside along the old Virginian
Railway starting on page 48. PHOTO BY SAMUEL PHILLIPS
4 Departures/commentary: Alexander B. Craghead 6 Railnews/top news stories and photos from our readers
18 Transit Currents/transit news: George M. Smerk 21 Capitol Lines/news from Washington: Wes Vernon 23 Railroadiana/new product, book, and video reviews 25 Timetable/railroad event listings submitted by our readers 26 LocoNotes/diesel spotters: Kenneth M. Ardinger 54 Camera Bag/photography technique: Dennis A. Livesey 57 On the Menu/dining, travel, and art: James D. Porterfield 60 Preservation Topics/heritage and legacy: Otto M. Vondrak 62 Markers/editorial commentary and musings 65 Classifieds/the railfan marketplace 72 Parting Shot/Eric Miller
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