My mom and her two sisters walked across that bridge! A looong time ago! Beautiful country... thank you for the video! She grew up near there... the Kaylor’s!
No caboose?! But it was really awesome to see a train go across that REALLY high track! Its kinda nerve-wracking to watch, thinking the track was gonna give way any minute! Tell Baby Girl I loved her choo-chooing! She's a darling! God bless y'all! Thanks, Shane, for another beautiful video. But you forgot to sing! 😲
Awesome trestle !! Learned to count by counting coal cars looking out my window in Rosine, Kentucky on The Illinois Central Railroad now called The P&L (Paducah and Louisville)...
I have fished there many times but it was many years ago. There used to be a story about a blind mule walking all the way across that trestle. I love looking at places close to where I was raised right outside Big Stone Gap. Haven't been home in over 20 years. Thanks
Thanks for this one! My Grandparents lived just down the highway. When I was about 12 walked over the lower trestle with cousins David and Richard. Clinchport was still a town then, we walked over the swinging bridge there too. Quite an adventure! Enjoyed seeing your little one too. Thanks again.
My wife and I stopped at the Clinchport swinging bridge just up the road on 65 this past Sunday and commented that in all the times we have driven past the trestle, we have NEVER seen a train on it. I need to try and find a schedule online.
As you could probably tell in the video, it threw me off just a bit because I thought they only used the lowet one lol. I was very surprised when it popped out of nowhere like that but I tried to pretent I knew it all along lol
As many times as I've been through there over the years (nanner nanner, VA State Troopers, can't catch me anymore :-) ) , I can't ever recall actually seeing a train up there! I figured the thing was not in use anymore (it looks downright scary, what with all the rust and such). Very cool that you caught it when you did! -Ed on the Ridge