This is another great photo by the late Jack Fravert of Louisville. This is probably about 1950, and it's most likely a section of southbound train 73 (perhaps first 73, although it could be a sec... (more)

8165 may still be around, but lots of other stuff in this photo is gone or significantly altered. The signals were removed years ago, the wood-related traffic is mostly gone, the pole line was re... (more)

A Mobile-bound freight passes through Montgomery's hot spot at Bell Street tower. The ICG and WofA curve off to the left just in front of 1552, with the SCL in passing the signal in the background... (more)

It was a more innocent time… when a summertime swim in the Coal River might mean jumping off the railroad bridge at Sproul, and that’s what the photographer found when he visited there on June... (more)

Everyone on RP seems to enjoy the ghoulish shots of derailments, so here's an April Fool's Day view of one from 1972. The photographer is the late Joe Morton, a Cincinnati Division engineer on L&N... (more)

The northbound L&N Southland--a Tampa/St. Pete to the Midwest train handled by the L&N between Cincinnati and Atlanta--swings off the NC&StL main line at Cartersville onto the "New Line" to Etowah... (more)

The L&N company photographer has arranged to stop train 70 on a June morning in 1957 at the big trestle at Independence. Up front today is an A-B-B-A set of F-units (F9/F7/F3/F7). Lead unit 924 is... (more)

In late 1958, a freight swings through a reverse curve at Emerson, GA, on the ex-Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis main line north of Atlanta. Two of the B-units have surrendered their blue and g... (more)

This slide has been in my collection for many years, though I regrettably do not know the identity of the photographer. The scene is L&N’s old Canal Street station in the “Big Easy”—New Or... (more)

A five-unit consist of Alcos--FA2/RS3/FB2/RS3/FA2--coils through a reverse curve near Emerson, Georgia, on the Georgia-owned Western & Atlantic. This train is probably fast freight number 42, boun... (more)

With its bell caught on the upswing, L&N K-5 Pacific 266--a USRA design of uncommon visual appeal--rolls out of the tunnel at Latonia with the morning southbound Pan-American to New Orleans. This ... (more)

After running New Orleans to Montgomery on the L&N, this train will soon be headed for Atlanta via the WofA/A&WP with a new number - 216. It will finish its journey to Hamlet, NC over SCL's former... (more)

Power and caboose for an evening southbound heads north. A dismal day, but at least the snow is gone.

An interesting mix of Clichfield RR power leads a northbound freight through Spruce Pine, NC during the summer of 1970.

A wild mix of Clinchfield EMD power leads a northbound freight up the mountain at Camp Two in the summer of 1970.