The Clinch Valley local from Bluefield, WV to Norton, VA, rolls out of a tunnel powered by two E-2a 4-6-2's, 578 and 563. The normally two or three car local is extra heavy today because of cars, including a Pullman sleeper, added to accomodate a NRHS group, of which I was part. This was an ancient time when I carried a Weston exposure meter and used its readings to manually adjust my camera. I had just switched from Ektachrome to the very slow Kodachrome and forgot to change the speed on my Weston meter and consequenly the slide came out nearly black. Fortunately my slide scanner brought back some color. This tunnel and bridge is near Norton, Va.-- can you imagine being a passenger on a rural local train and having it stop for a runby -- I guess there were not many non-railfan passengers on this Saturday.

Photographed by Edward Ozog, May 4, 1957.
Added to the photo archive by Edward Ozog, August 25, 2009.
Railroad: Norfolk and Western Railroad.

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