Two back to back feature length films on Joes Junction!
In this video, myself, along with Washington District Railfan spent a few days in the greater Bluefield, West Virginia area shooting trains and exploring some of the lesser shot branch lines. While our main focus was on the Pocahontas District, aka, 'The Pokey', as well as the N&W between Bluefield and Roanoke, we did some exploring further southwest along some of the coal branches. The main one we wanted to, and did end catch a couple of trains on, was the 'Big Creek' Branch, which still sported a handful of CPL signals between Richlands and Vansant. Since we were in the area in March of 2020 however, the branch has been idled due to the downturn of coal traffic throughout this year.
Inbetween all the action on the rails, we managed to do quite a bit of exploring around some of the abandoned and disused branches of both the N&W and even the mothballed Virginian 'PD' district, which runs between Princeton and Deepwater, WV. Sadly, I didn't shoot any footage of these, but what we ended up shooting on the mainlines and branches was more than enough to fill this feature length video with action from start to finish!
While coal traffic is definitely on the downturn, it was nice to capture as much action as we did on this trip, and I definitely would like to plan another trip to the area and find a few other branches to explore and hopefully catch some action on!
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