Louisville & Nashville SD40-2 #8031, leading Lineville Subdivision Nashville (TN) - Waycross (GA) train #385 southbound. #8031 was built April 1979 and later became Seaboard System #8031; then CS... (more)

L&N L-1 class Mountain-type number 418 is still in the early stages of running repairs at the company’s Corbin, KY backshop in this scene from 1946. The engine’s four-wheel pony, or engine tru... (more)

This is the interior of L&N's Shop 17--the running repair facility built for diesels at its South Louisville Shops complex. Two F7As--824 and 811, coupled--are in for traction motor attention. In ... (more)

WofA 213 was an L&N run-thru that typically ran with U23Bs and GP38s, along with a few other 2nd-gen geeps. But on this February day, an SDP35 leads a GP30, SD40 and GP38.

A southbound local sits in the siding at Elmore waiting for the northbound Floridian. It's just May, but the late morning heat and humidity and lack of a/c in the geep's cab are combining to cook ... (more)

In L&N's pre-CSX stealth scheme, 416 switches a Georgia RR hopper just beyond the shadow of the yard tower.

L&N 661 starts its trek down the south end of the "Old Line" as it departs Tate

Start your engine(s)!

A L&N mixed freight led by a GP30 heads southbound on the former Monon mainline. Tom Golden photo.

Everyone on RP seems to enjoy the ghoulish shots of derailments, so here's an April Fool's Day view of one from 1972. The photographer is the late Joe Morton, a Cincinnati Division engineer on L&N... (more)

Among the last units to be delivered new in L&N gray and yellow, L&N 3573 and 3578 (EMD 12/74) lead a newer SD40-2 sister (3585 - EMD 9/77) adorned with the Family Lines scheme.

The combined L&N Pan-American (from Cincinnati), Piedmont Limited (a Southern-West Point run from New York, combined at Montgomery), and Gulf Wind (from Jacksonville, via SAL, added at Flomaton, A... (more)

The northbound L&N Southland--a Tampa/St. Pete to the Midwest train handled by the L&N between Cincinnati and Atlanta--swings off the NC&StL main line at Cartersville onto the "New Line" to Etowah... (more)

Passenger power lays over at the 10th "roundhouse" just south of Louisville Union Station in this late-'50s scene by Tom Smart. L&N had abandoned this classic dark blue/cream scheme with orange tr... (more)

The southbound L&N Southland--a Tampa/St. Pete-Midwest train handled by the L&N between Cincinnati and Atlanta--has the signal from CUT Tower A and is moving out for Atlanta. Back under the concou... (more)