This photo was taken at the Mount Frigid Engine Terminal in fall of 1950. You can see N&W 1238 on the right. She was a regular guest on the Bluefield in 1950 and was regularly serviced at Mount Frigid along with a couple of her articulated sisters.  In the center is an older Bluefield consolidation.

N&W Class A pulls a heavy freight on The Bluefield in January of 1951. She is seen running through the rock cut just past Post tunnel. This line only saw occasional service after 1944, when a grade reducing cutoff was built. The new line reconnected to the old line near Big Run.

in 1950, The Norkfolk and Western Railway took control of the Bluefield and Allegheny Central Railroad, but allowed to the latter road to continue to operate as a separate entity for many years.  The Bluefield benefited in the spring of that year when several of the N&W's "modern steam locomotives" showed up on the  property to help with assignments.  The Class Js rarely ever saw service on the line from Bluefield to Fairmont because their long rigid wheelbase was rough on the sharp curves common on the Bluefield. Never the less, class J 605 is captured here at the Fairmont roundhouse in May of 1950. The tender of a large articulated N&W locomotive can also be seen at the far right.