L&N #99 with L&N #797 leading at Louisville Union Station.

L&N #9 “Pan American” with L&N 786 leading at Louisville Union Station.

Somehow I can't think of these as "buttheads" in the classic since, what with the road trucks and all. Great place to railfan down south in the 80s. Did you ever wonder if "railfa... (more)

Early in the Seaboard System merger we got some "exotics" before some idiot took a spray can to them.

I like the locomotive but transfer cabeese are some of my favorites, because most are one-offs and they sure look good in the winter with a wisp of smoke coming from the stack. Photo by my old pa... (more)

Another good day a Corbin, now practically a ghost town rail-wise.

The later L&N 40s went into anticipated number series that never panned out. This one is reasonably new. Incidentally, my notes say "best railfan day ever". And why not? They still h... (more)

Wow. Has it been over 40 years? And they were getting rare even then. I made several special trips to get the last ones.

Boyle was almost always good for L&N Fs in their final months of service.

Recently refurbished U-boats (done at South Louisville?) meet SW1500 5004 near south end of Sibert Yard. Two more recent rebuilds are out of frame on the right. Trailing 2508 came out of GE as a... (more)

SW1500s were a common sight a Boyles Yard in the 1970s, some in the newer, simplified L&N switcher scheme, and some in this earlier scheme, with slanted letters and numbers in yellow, outlined in ... (more)

NW2 2213 brings two boxcars and a cab through the railroad gulch on the west side of downtown Nashville.

L&N's first GP30 (1000) and first GP35 (1100) team up on a local departing southbound from the combined L&N/SCL yard in Montgomery.