A nearly new U30C is ready for departure with southbound coal loads.

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)

Cumberland Valley Division local passenger number 12, a daily Norton, VA to Pineville, KY run, steams downgrade out of Callahan’s Nose Tunnel between Appalachia and Big Stone Gap, Virginia in Ju... (more)

This is "Big Emma." When the Louisville & Nashville Railroad elected to seriously upgrade its freight motive power in the early '40s, it went whole-hog for a Baldwin-built variant of the Van Sweri... (more)

Coal passes Nashville's Union Station on its way south as a couple of U23Bs idle in the great building's shadow.

One of the smallest and least remarked "union" stations in the country was the L&N depot at Appalachia, VA. Served by the Interstate (until 1928), Southern (until 1939) and L&N (until 1953), the f... (more)

One of the first uses of diesel-electric motive power on the south end of the L&N's Cumberland Valley Division in freight service was the RS-3s working the Norton Local out of Loyall, KY to Norton... (more)

Tennessee Central Railway Museum’s former Louisville & Nashville GP7 405 leads a Murder Mystery Train to Watertown, TN.

A Louisville and Nashville GE U23B leads a coal train towards Winchester at Sloan siding after meeting an eastbound at Cressy, Kentucky, in December 1983. The L&N was then part of Family Lines and... (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)

An Alco switcher (repowered w/567) and slug work S&NA Yard. Construction on a multi-lane overpass just getting underway in the distance will complicate yards ops for the next few months.

This year L&N Historical Society convention was in Nashville Tennessee. Tennessee Central Railway Museum restored Louisville & Nashville GP7 405 to as delivered paint scheme and made its first tri... (more)

Louisville & Nashville GP7 405 and Tennessee Central Railway Museum E8 run around the L&N Historical Society convention train at Lebanon.

Louisville & Nashville GP7 405 leads the L&N Historical Society convention train with one of its namesake city skylines in the back ground.

Former L&N GP7 405 has been returned to it as delivered paint scheme by the Tennessee Central Railway Museum. The 405 made its debut leading the L&N Historical Society convention train to Lebanon... (more)