A trio of C-C GEs heads for their train of coal empties near Colunbia's Devine Junction hotspot. That's SAL's now-removed viaduct in the background.
In a nice image made by Tom Smart, 660 is assited by a GP30, RS3 and an FA in the old blue scheme.
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)
This is an L&N company photo (original photographer unknown). The train is Cincinnati-Knoxville (TN) day local number 29, which made all the stops on this, the "KY" Subdivision of L&N's Cincinnati... (more)
Looking out over the nose of L&N E7 760, this is the view from the fireman’s seat as train 6, the New Orleans-Cincinnati “Humming Bird” approaches its final stop at CUT in the Queen City. Th... (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)
L&N's company photographer posed three brand new SD35s on the escape track under the hump at DeCoursey one evening in 1965 for this scene. The shot was used on the cover of an issue of the L&N Mag... (more)
Louisville & Nashville (Seaboard System) U23B #2710, U23B #2748, U36B #1824, GP40 #6726 & GP30 #1364 lead train #335, an interchange train from Burlington Northern at East Thomas Yard in Birmingha... (more)
This is a staged L&N p.r. photo. The young girl waving to the engineer is standing alongside the double-tracked main line to Nashville--a few miles south of Louisville--for no apparent reason. Thi... (more)
Louisville & Nashville U23B #2817 was built February 1975 and later became CSX #3318
Just south of the junction at Amqui, an SD40-2 in the new number series and FL scheme leads a stealth U30C and an SDP35 - also in FL colors - with coal loads.
Leading a coal train north, L&N C-Cs from all three builders team up with an Alco C630 recently transferred from sister road SCL.
L&N 4018 leads an older GP30 past the yard tower at S&NA Yard. That;s a bit of a rare bird in the background - SCL GP18 1064.
The engineer gives a shout-out to a signal maintainer as his hopper train - led by a trio of U23Bs and a GP40 - rumbles through Jemison.