This is an absolutely typical power set for L&N unit coal trains in the 1970s, with three U30Cs and an SD40-2. The EMD would outlast the C-boats, but 1549 - renumbered 7243 - did make it into Sea... (more)
Sometimes you'll never know what you will find next to the road in somebody's front yard. Here, we have a fading L&N caboose that has seen better days. If this was in my front yard, I would turn i... (more)
After nearly 60 years of control, parent Louisville & Nashville merged the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis on August 30, 1957. Photographer Henry Libby, photo from my collection.
Kentucky Railway Museums L&N 152 leads a ferry move south for Bardstown where that weekend it and the Monon BL2 would lead excursions over the Bardstown Branch. Today the Bardstown Branch is opera... (more)