Norfolk and Western steam locomotive No. 433 in Abingdon, Virginia. A 4-8-0 engine, built by Baldwin locomotive works in 1907, it did service on the Virginia Creeper railroad, near the end of her service life. Affectionately known as "Molly", because she was a Class M locomotive, she was retired in 1958 and donated to the town of Abingdon, where she resides today. Only two Norfolk and Western class M locomotives survive today - the other still operates on the Strassburg Railroad in Strassburg, Pennsylvania.
The Copper Creek trestle near Clinchport, Virginia. The taller of these two trestles stands at 167 feet and was the tallest trestle on the east coast when it was built in 1908 by the Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Railroad. CSX railroad now owns the tall trestle and Norfolk Southern the shorter trestle. They were built to create quicker access to the coalfields of southwest Virginia and southeast Kentucky.
The Fannon train museum located in Duffield, Virginia, the smallest incorporated town in Virginia. The museum is actually a replica depot that was used as a prop in the movie "Coal Miners Daughter". In the movie, it had a sign on the depot indicating that it was in Van Lear, Kentucky, which was the closest town to Butcher Hollow, where Loretta Lynn grew up. The depot was donated to Kenny Fannon in 1980 after the movie production was finished. The caboose previously belonged to Norfolk and Western railroad and was donated to Kenny Fannon in 1989. It was built in 1940 in the Roanoke, Virginia shops.
