A trio of L&N GP38ACs moves engine lite on the former C&EI. Tom Golden photo.

The loader at Bluehole, Kentucky looks like it’s plenty busy as a Louisville & Nashville train of empties splits the two sides of the facility. Today, this scene is pretty much eradicated.

Three Louisville & Nashville units approach Bluehole, Kentucky with a train of empty hoppers.

A Louisville & Nashville U30C/C30-7 combo, both units in Family Lines paint, serve the coal loader in Kentucky. For some reason, my slide is labelled as “Myrna, KY”, but I don’t think that�... (more)

An L&N GP30 in Family Line attire works customers along the main near Pascagoula.

A coal train destined for Plant Harlee Branch near Milledgeville waits for a crew as the coach at the rear of the mixed train from Macon disappears in the distance.

In the late 1970s, Family Lines power was starting to float all over the system, but very few non-SCL units made it to the former ACL main through Charleston, at least in my experience. On this d... (more)

The daily NOLA-Cincy run-through train passes the hot box detector just west of Auburn. Never saw another detector like this one. Maybe a diy job by Western Railway of Alabama?

One of L&N's earliest GP30s has a new paint job. This simplified scheme was one of several variations on L&N gray. It wasn't quite stealth, but with the gray nose (in place of yellow) and yellow... (more)

A Mobile-bound L&N freight slides past the Floridian (powered by a B&O E8A) making its station stop at Montgomery. The freight won't delay the passengers, as just a few hundred yards out of the s... (more)

The daily L&N/West Point Route Cincy-NOLA train rolls through a cut in the Georgia red clay.

A honey-hole of sunlight hits L&N 4124 at just the right moment - the exact opposite of what usually happens to me on partly cloudy days.

The daily run-through freight - delivered to L&N in New Orleans by Southern Pacific - has a quartet of that road's geeps behind a home-road GP38-2. They are just about to depart for Birmingham an... (more)

A unit train of coal from western Kentucky rolls past the tower at Amqui. On the other side of the building is the Louisville line, which is still referred to as 'the main', though it has been ec... (more)

Frequent problems restarting Atlanta-bound trains after the required stop at the Southern crossing in Opelika led to the practice shown in this photo. Crews stopped their trains on the downgrade ... (more)