L&N entered the used locomotive market in 1963, picking up several models of Alco from the Lehigh & New England. With Alco FA2 #335 still in ex-L&NE paint scheme the units were pressed into serv... (more)
Operator Steve Hicks gets ready to hand up orders to the crew of L&N 790, which is swinging across the plant at Amqui to head for Evansville.
The obsolete coaling tower looms over a Louisville & Nashville train hauling pulpwood in Flomaton, Alabama, on January 27th, 1973. The lead engine is F9A 556, built by EMD in December 1956 as L&N... (more)
The Amqui agent stays in the shade as he hands up orders to the rear end man on a Louisville-bound train.
A CSX train is captured at the right moment as it passes the Bowling Green L&N engine.
GP35 1122 leads a trio of newer GP38s on run-thru train that used A&WP/WofA between Atlanta and Montgomery.
This is one of my favorite L&N photos--taken by the late August Thieme. CV Division train 55--the overnight through freight from Corbin to Norton, VA--is blasting upgrade on the last three miles t... (more)
I found this old slide taken by my friend David DeVault. It's the color version of a unit I also photographed (in black and white) that same summer: http://www.railpictures.net/viewphoto.php?id... (more)
As Family Lines started to become an operational reality in the early 1970s, both SCL and L&N established run-through trains that used the A&WP/WofA between Atlanta and Montgomery. For the first ... (more)
With 27 units, L&N had by far the biggest U25B fleet in the southeast - really, the only fleet - but by 1975 the old boats were getting used more in big-city transfer service and less in mainline ... (more)
L&N freight at Birmingham, AL led by GP38-2 #4088 in June 1973. Photograph by Fred M. Springer ... (more)
Power going to the ready tracks.
Simple but relatively clean.
