Riverside Grocery. One of the great retail oriented scenes on the Clinchfield Railroad portion used by The Santa Train is Riverside Grocery on Dickenson Highway in the "company town" of Clincho, Virginia. While Riverside Grocery is presently closed, on November 17, 2017, it was still open and selling Pepsi products next to the bridge with the railroad's name spanning the highway when the deadhead move of the consist passed on the way from Kingsport, Tennessee to Shelbiana, Kentucky. That year was the 75th Anniversary of this holiday season tradition, and was celebrated by CSX by restoring and repainting CRR 800 (built as an F3, rebuilt as an F7), the first diesel owned by the Clinchfield Railroad, and SD45 CRR 3432 (née-SCL 2024), which in reality was never part of the CRR roster, but makes an excellent stand in for the purpose. Both units are owned by the Southern Appalachia Railway Museum today.
From a hint of "Bee" (NKP 765), colorful "Bees" (KCS), "Bees" w/ "attitude", to "Bees" that "sting" your eyes, in their own way they have "Bee" on display! Equipment that "Buzzes" with Yellow & Black colors! ("Bees" can still "Bee" entering this "hive"!)
