CSX, back to back coal trains at Thurmond WVa

[tony46214]

The movie, Matewan was filmed at Thurmond back in the late 1980s and every October the New River Trains from Huntington to Hinton go thru there ....if anybody ever gets a chance to go to Thurmond, I highly recomend it...it is a very historic little town off U.S. 19 from Beckley and not too far from the famous New River Bridge....The whole New River Gorge is all so very scenic....

[strangersound]

That's spectacular! What a place. The history is wonderful and the composition on that first shot was perfect. :)

[gaycowboy31]

they out to open a railroad hotel there in Town right by the tracks since its an amtrak stop I bet it would be popular with railfans I know I would be there

[FlyBikes089]

Great video!

[Rtchugg]

What a cool place

[norfolkdash9]

I love those CSX horns in the mountains!

[flexspinner]

CN should do that more often the via comes through at 2:00 then at 2:05 a CN freight came and stopped for the via 5 minutes down the track and theres a siding before that CN is a wimp

[altetz]

Got any video of trains going thru Montgomery? Lived there for 5 years while going to WVIT!

[ravenlunatic1]

I LOVE Thurmond! I've got some great B&W photos of Thurmond. Went to school in Montgomery. Mom and Dad lived in Oak Hill (Dad's from Mullens), (Mom's from Beards Fork), I'm sure nobody on here heard of those two towns! I live in TN now, love it, but it ain't WVa! These trains reminds me of the ones that go by my house here on Railroad Street! You're right "bigmac" ...nothing like that train wistle and those clacking tracks! Thanks Jack!

[1jackdk]

Glad you enjoyed the videos. Oak Hill, Beards Fork. I know where they are. We have been all over WVA, and in places no one ever dreamed there was places. WVA is a great state, and I know you miss it. Take care, and thanks for watching. Jack

[SalandFindles]

Oak Hill is considered a city, not a town and has a population of almost 7,589 believe it or not, probably more than that, since that was the 2000 statistic. It's more of Beards Fork that not a lot of people would have heard of. lol

[AOEStrategist]

@ravenlunatic1 Haha happy to say sir I know precisely where all of what you speak of is. I lived at Babcock for 8 years and have family strung from Princeton to Charleston. Love the area too, i know the feeling.

[jpsmith81]

@ravenlunatic1 I know where all of those towns are. I live outside of Montgomery and I'm originally from Wyoming county. I love Thurmond. I always feel like I've stepped back in time when I go there.

[bigmacintn]

Nice video but it was the sounds that captured me. When I was little, my Grandma ran a boarding house for coal miners in a small SW Virginia coal town. And just two streets over were the railroad yards. There is nothing like the lonesome whistle, the drone of the diesel and the clacking of the freight cars to relax a person. I do miss that sound!

[CSXTransportation]

How many trains a day go through here?

[1jackdk]

Maybe 12 or better. Thanks for looking. Jack

[CSXTransportation]

Ok thanks. I plan to go there this October.

[1jackdk]

You also have the RJC that runs down the hill to the connecton at Thurmond...

[OttoRax]

Looks like Matewan, the movie set. Great stuff.

[1jackdk]

I think they restored the buildings for the movie, but they where just empty shells. It is run by the National Park System now. Thanks for watching. Jack

[bmpowell]

"Matewan" was indeed filmed in Thurmond in the 1980s.

The NPS basically stabilized the interior of the downtown buildings a couple years ago, but as Jack noted they're empty inside aside from some displays in the windows. According to some rangers I've talked with, NPS would like to restore and reopen the buildings but they need funding.

[ntrainlover]

How much time apart were those?

[1jackdk]

Couldn't have been more than 10 minutes. Thanks for looking. Jack...