A hard charging Berkshire with a southbound time freight arrives in terminus, pulling past Terminal Station on the Mountain Division Line. This was the newest class of locomotive on the Bluefield until a couple of Norfolk and Western class As and a J showed up to help out with heavy high speed assignments. These Berkshires were mostly used for high priority mail and express and perishable trains. Later on, the Js took over the mail and express, leaving the Berks to haul high priority freight. The Bluefield Berkshires were slippery engines, but a well seasoned engineer could get good work out of one. The railroad also leased several Berkshires from the Nickel Plate, ever purchasing two of them when the NKP dieselized.
