Clinchfield on Copper Creek

Clinchfield on Copper Creek

By Angela Cotey | July 7, 2022

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


Pacific 153 leads the Clinchfield Railroad’s daily passenger train from Spartanburg, S.C., to Elkhorn City, Ky., across the landmark Copper Creek Viaduct near Speers Ferry, Va., on May 28, 1952. The lower trestle carries Southern Railway’s Bristol–Appalachia, Va., line over the creek.
Ed Theisinger photo

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