The beautiful Montgomery Station. Built in 1898 by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, this station is now used as office space, a Montgomery Area Visitor Center, and a restaurant. In 1973 it w... (more)

When the L&N Railroad completed the "CC&O Connection" linking its Martin's Fork Branch in Harlan County, KY to the original Cumberland Valley Division at Hagans, VA (via a switchback) in... (more)

One of the L&N Railroad's notable "Big Emma" 2-8-4s, Baldwin M-1 class 1964, appears clean and freshly painted in this 1954 view at Barbourville, KY. The train is approaching the Cumberl... (more)

L&N Railroad Cumberland Valley Division northbound train 44 from Lynch to Corbin sails around the curve at Ponza, KY, at the north end of the yard at Page. The bridge crosses Yellow Creek, while t... (more)

This graphic depiction of a calamity of railroading was scanned from a small snap shot taken by an unknown person in the ‘30s. The location is the Louisville & Nashville’s yard at Corbin, KY�... (more)

This is another great photo by the late Jack Fravert of Louisville. This is probably about 1950, and it's most likely a section of southbound train 73 (perhaps first 73, although it could be a sec... (more)

It’s Sunday, June 24, 1956, and Louisville & Nashville M-1 class number 1962—one of the memorable “Big Emma” 2-8-4s that worked the eastern side of the system, in Kentucky only—slowly ba... (more)

Cumberland Valley Division local passenger number 12, a daily Norton, VA to Pineville, KY run, steams downgrade out of Callahan’s Nose Tunnel between Appalachia and Big Stone Gap, Virginia in Ju... (more)

This is "Big Emma." When the Louisville & Nashville Railroad elected to seriously upgrade its freight motive power in the early '40s, it went whole-hog for a Baldwin-built variant of the Van Sweri... (more)

One of the smallest and least remarked "union" stations in the country was the L&N depot at Appalachia, VA. Served by the Interstate (until 1928), Southern (until 1939) and L&N (until 1953), the f... (more)

In a great action photo by David Noble, a pair of Louisville & Nashville Mikes rolls around the curve at the top of the hill at Patio Tower, Winchester. This coal train originated "up the holler" ... (more)

In a rare color action shot from the late '40s, photographer Bill Clark captured an L&N K-3 Pacific--number 209--doubleheaded with 2-8-0 number 1219 on this southbound (actually, heading westward,... (more)

L&N homemade J2-A Mike (built at South Louisville Shops--1918) 1462 is working helper duty at Baileys, KY (or Bailey's Switch as it's also called) about 1949. This hill required a round-the-clock ... (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)

What appears to be L&N's southbound Pan-American is mere minutes into its daily Cincinnati to New Orleans trip as K-5 Pacific 279 hammers along toward the north portal of Latonia Tunnel.