Louisville & Nashville (Seaboard System) U30C #1477 having its cooling water drained. Louisville & Nashville U30C #1477 was built June 1972 and later became CSX #7207

In 1973 L&N Fs were still fairly common around Atlanta and Birmingham, but they were considered great catches in Montgomery. Here, 614 sits surrounded by ground soaked thoroughly by years of fuel ... (more)

A trio of endcab switchers teams with a pair of slugs on a caboose hop about to drop down 'the slide' at Tilford Yard.

L&N 4010 brings a northbound freight into Montgomery through a summer shower. It's been sweltering since early morning, and the warm rain just makes it steamier.

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)

A trio of U23Bs team with a U25B to power a southbound freight past shabby Union Station.

An unusual power set (two SDP35s bracketing an SD35) gets even stranger with the addition of SW1500 5004. The switcher may be headed for a quarterly, buts its position in the lead is a little odd.

L&N 8072 coming into Corbin Yard.

L&N leaned heavily to four-axle power through Montgomery back in the 1970s but, as this photo shows, the C-Cs showed up as well.

After a Hamlet-Atlanta leg on SCL and an Atlanta-Montgomery trip over the West Point Route, Train 615 is a few minutes into the Montgomery-New Orleans run over L&N.

L&N SD40-2 3583 at Tilford Yard in Atlanta, October 1978

A southbound freight passes Montgomery's hot spot, the tower near Bell Street. WofA's line to Selma and the ICG to Tuscaloosa split off here, and the SCL line to Waycross can be seen to the right ... (more)

A handicapped man who used to visit the Union Station platforms to watch trains waves at the crew of a northbound.