This slide has been in my collection for many years, though I regrettably do not know the identity of the photographer. The scene is L&N’s old Canal Street station in the “Big Easy”—New Or... (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.
A five-unit consist of Alcos--FA2/RS3/FB2/RS3/FA2--coils through a reverse curve near Emerson, Georgia, on the Georgia-owned Western & Atlantic. This train is probably fast freight number 42, boun... (more)