The Amqui agent stays in the shade as he hands up orders to the rear end man on a Louisville-bound train.
Simple but relatively clean.
Mobile was a treasure of southern railroading in these days with Frisco, TASD, Southern, GM&O and L&N all coming to town. The waterfront yard of L&N was busy and crowded with beautiful yellow and... (more)
A shot taken from the Telegraph Road viaduct shows L&N 5004 working the south end of Sibert Yard. In the foreground are shop tracks in ICG's former GM&O yard. Strings of yellow Terminal Railway ... (more)
A westbound L&N unit coal train passes near Blackmont, KY on the CV Subdivision on May 30, 1978, led by SD40-2 No. 3579.
The lead diesel is in full shade as L&N run-through train 214 climbs around the curve and out of Opelika on a summer evening. GP38s are front and back, but in between are 4 U-boats, including 2 U... (more)
L&N 863 was very close to the end as she waited at the e.f. in Boyles Yard. I caught her on a Nashville freight a few days later and, though I didn't know it at the time, would never see another L... (more)
A southbound local sits in the siding at Elmore waiting for the northbound Floridian. It's just May, but the late morning heat and humidity and lack of a/c in the geep's cab are combining to cook ... (more)
CSX uses big C-Cs on coal coming into mobile these days, but in the early 1980s, L&N went through a period where it seemed they thought GP38s were the perfect power for every application. In this ... (more)
This is another unidentified oldie from my collection. The scene is almost certainly L&N’s eight-stall roundhouse (with 75-foot turntable) at Pensacola, FL. Such a calamity pictured here was act... (more)
eastbound road freight near Mobile, AL
The Louisville & Nashville was a class act. I rest my case.
L&N local returning to Wauhatchie Yard from downtown Chattanooga with GP7 #414 for power // October 1974
L&N F units at Madisonville, KY during the summer of '73.