Crab Creek Road (East) VICKER (West) Walton
Vicker is the site of one of the signature landmarks of the Christiansburg district, the large four-track concrete coaling tower that still looms over the tracks and the community.

UP 4335
On a hazy summer morning in July 2005, a set of UP wings lead 16T uphill.

BNSF 5668 BNSF 5668 Trains 236 and M47 NS 9909
Train M47 eases downhill behind a BNSF widecab, and passes train 236 climbing the hill lead by primer NS 9909 in March 2005.

NS 6806
Train 184 with a BNSF widecab in the consist after a snowstorm in January 2005.

NS 6806 NS 9167
Train 185 lead by a blue ex-Conrail SD60M passes the old Vicker station site (behind the train) in May 2004.
Train 763 approaches the Switchback Road grade crossing on main 1 in November 2003.

UP 7578 UP 7578 UP 7578
A Union Pacific locomotive leads train 162 east under the coaling tower, while train 757 eases downhill, on the last day of May 2003.

NS 8427 NS 8427 NS 9191
Repainted ex-Conrail widecab NS 8427 brings train 184 east on a winter afternoon in February 2003. While the train was passing, a catfish brings train 51J, with a cut of empty coal cars in front of its grain hoppers, west on Main 2.

NS 9247
Train 112 comes under the coaling tower and splits the signals on main 1 in December 2002.

Crab Creek Road (East) VICKER (West) Walton
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