Pocahontas Glory, Steam on the Norfolk & Western, Volume 4

You’ll see engine facilities at Bluefield, Roanoke, Crewe and Norfolk with a lot of stunning color action! This is “Tipple to Tidewater”, a film by Harry P Dodge and Bob Flack. This is the story of the movement of coal from mines in West Virginia to the coal transfer docks at Lambert Point in Norfolk. It’s 1957 and N&W Y class 2-8-8-2s haul long lines of hoppers of black diamonds to Roanoke, then A class 2-6-6-4s take over for the run to Norfolk, but not before crossing Blue Ridge with helpers and pushers! Big steam from the heyday of steam on arguably the nation’s most committed steam railroad.