Fans talked about the CSX 'stealth scheme' when the first very plain, very gray C40-8s arrived around 1990, but L&N had gone stealth years before when in the mid-1970s they stopped painting loco n... (more)
L&N 1030 and 1031 aren't much past their tenth birthdays, but they are already mostly relegated to service on secondary trains, like this long-distance local heading south from S&N Yard. On the r... (more)
This is an absolutely typical power set for L&N unit coal trains in the 1970s, with three U30Cs and an SD40-2. The EMD would outlast the C-boats, but 1549 - renumbered 7243 - did make it into Sea... (more)
Sometimes you'll never know what you will find next to the road in somebody's front yard. Here, we have a fading L&N caboose that has seen better days. If this was in my front yard, I would turn i... (more)
After nearly 60 years of control, parent Louisville & Nashville merged the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis on August 30, 1957. Photographer Henry Libby, photo from my collection.
