Kellysville (East) OAKVALE (West) Ingleside
There is another crossover at Oakvale, between the signals just west of the Route 112 grade crossing. The former Virginian P-D District tracks cross Fivemile Creek on a bridge above the Volunteer Fire Department.

NS 8314
Eastbound coal train 77K rides on the edge of shadows on a November 2005 morning.

NS 8675 NS 8675
Empty grain train 51Z is working hard on the climb to Bluefield through the curves west of Oakvale in May 2005. Norfolk Southern often fills out the tonnage of westbound grain trains with empty hoppers, sometimes resulting in more coal hoppers than grain cars on the trains.

NS 9233
A catfish and a Union Pacific SD40-2 are the power for train 18M on an overcast afternoon in September 2004.

NS 2545
SD70 2545 leads train 185 west at the Oakvale crossover in November 2003. This train is also pictured at Narrows.

UP 4948
Lead by Union Pacific SD70M 4948, train S21 meets eastbound train 770 just west of the crossover in September 2003. Train 770 was also photographed at Ada and Ingleside.

NS 9190 NS 8921
NS 9190 brings train 17M over a rain-swollen East River in February 2003. A few months earlier, train 185 has a B23-7 and SD50 behind the lead dash-9 as it crosses a much lower river on its trip west in December 2002.

BNSF 4959
Robb Fisher caught a unusual consist of seven BNSF units bringing a train westbound in November 2002. He also caught the same train at Blake.

NS 9612 NS 9644 NS 9644
On a cloudy fall afternoon in late October 2002, an eastbound autorack train approaches Oakvale, followed by a westbound empty coal train.

NS 8865 CSXT 54
Passing through the light from a short-lived break in the clouds on a rainy Saturday in August 2002, an empty coal train makes its fifth of an eventual thirteen crossings of the East River on its climb from Glen Lyn to Bluefield. On another day in August 2002, all four major US Class 1 railroads were

NS 6801 NS 8770
In July 2002, an ex-CR SD60M brings yet another coal train through Oakvale, and a consist of GEs with an unhealthy ex-CR unit flames and smokes it's way to Bluefield.

NS 8538
A C30-7 leads an eastbound train over Pigeon Creek Road in June 2000.

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