This was about the last year for these great old beasts. I think I have a shot of one in 85 or 86.
The old enginehouse is still there in this shot. The late 3500s-early3600s were in an aborted merger number series and were the first L&N units delivered in FL.
One of the first order. I still like the gyralites.
Another U25 captured before the were gone. Louisville seemed especially rapid in getting these in FL so I have almost none in "real" L&N.
I can't let the night go by without an Alco. Somehow that jaunty bell on the ex-Monons just seem to set them apart.
SB "Lynch Turn". I believe those blue cars may have been some leased Texas & Northern 70 tonners leased in desperation.
Last order of GP-40s for what is now CSX was a small one delivered to L&N. This one is waiting at the usual spot to get into former SAL hump yard at Hamlet.
Just another coal train passes through another tiny hamlet on a dank and foggy day.
Got before it faded and peeled. Wish I'd found it a week later.
"Pennyroyal" coal train, bound for the Charleston area crosses NC 38 on a bridge still lettered for a mighty fine railroad.
L&N U25B has a new home in Oak Ridge , Tn.
NB empty train with SOU pool power is in no hurry to go. In those days they'd set for hours.
This originally was the only ACL SDP-35 and was drafted by SCL for transfer to L&N due to a motive power shortage. I'd love to see a shot of this thing in passenger service if that ever took plac... (more)
