The Cumberland Valley Division of the Louisville and Nashville began construction at Corbin, Kentucky, in 1886 and reached what would become Norton, Virginia, in 1891, completing a vital rail link between St. Louis and Tidewater Virginia. This bridge, L and N bridge 45, stood on a line later upgraded to handle heavy coal traffic from eastern Kentucky. The line carried its heaviest traffic from the late 1960s until 1986, when successor CSX Transportation opened a new bridge 1.8 miles downstream to access the Norfolk Southern main line. On the far right stood the community's first railroad station site. The South Atlantic and Ohio named it Intermont when its rails arrived here from Bristol, Virginia, in 1890. The Louisville and Nashville tunneled into what would soon be Appalachia the following year. Intermont soon became the railroad yard for the Virginia and Southwestern and, in 1916, Southern Railway. It closed in 1966 to make way for the Westmoreland Coal Company Transloader and Bullitt Mine, both of which closed in 1995. The facilities were later razed, and the thirty-acre site was reclaimed.