In a great action photo by David Noble, a pair of Louisville & Nashville Mikes rolls around the curve at the top of the hill at Patio Tower, Winchester. This coal train originated "up the holler" ... (more)

This photo was taken by an L&N company photographer on a scenic stretch of main line near Artemus, KY. The river to the right is the division's namesake: the Cumberland. Baldwin-built "Big Emma" M... (more)

The southbound Loyall-Varilla mine run rear-ended a standing freight on the former double track on the north end of Loyall Yard on this foggy day in 1958. This was CTC territory, but the track on ... (more)

In a rare color action shot from the late '40s, photographer Bill Clark captured an L&N K-3 Pacific--number 209--doubleheaded with 2-8-0 number 1219 on this southbound (actually, heading westward,... (more)

Louisville & Nashville SD40-2 #8031, leading Lineville Subdivision Nashville (TN) - Waycross (GA) train #385 southbound. #8031 was built April 1979 and later became Seaboard System #8031; then CS... (more)

L&N L-1 class Mountain-type number 418 is still in the early stages of running repairs at the company’s Corbin, KY backshop in this scene from 1946. The engine’s four-wheel pony, or engine tru... (more)

This is the interior of L&N's Shop 17--the running repair facility built for diesels at its South Louisville Shops complex. Two F7As--824 and 811, coupled--are in for traction motor attention. In ... (more)

WofA 213 was an L&N run-thru that typically ran with U23Bs and GP38s, along with a few other 2nd-gen geeps. But on this February day, an SDP35 leads a GP30, SD40 and GP38.

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)

In L&N's pre-CSX stealth scheme, 416 switches a Georgia RR hopper just beyond the shadow of the yard tower.

L&N 661 starts its trek down the south end of the "Old Line" as it departs Tate

Start your engine(s)!

A L&N mixed freight led by a GP30 heads southbound on the former Monon mainline. Tom Golden photo.

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)

Among the last units to be delivered new in L&N gray and yellow, L&N 3573 and 3578 (EMD 12/74) lead a newer SD40-2 sister (3585 - EMD 9/77) adorned with the Family Lines scheme.