Looking out over the nose of L&N E7 760, this is the view from the fireman’s seat as train 6, the New Orleans-Cincinnati “Humming Bird” approaches its final stop at CUT in the Queen City. Th... (more)

This is another unidentified oldie from my collection. The scene is almost certainly L&N’s eight-stall roundhouse (with 75-foot turntable) at Pensacola, FL. Such a calamity pictured here was act... (more)

L&N's company photographer posed three brand new SD35s on the escape track under the hump at DeCoursey one evening in 1965 for this scene. The shot was used on the cover of an issue of the L&N Mag... (more)

In late 1958, a freight swings through a reverse curve at Emerson, GA, on the ex-Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis main line north of Atlanta. Two of the B-units have surrendered their blue and g... (more)

This is a shot I obtained many years from the late Shelby Lowe. The subject is Southern Ts-class Mountain 1459--a Knoxville Division engine that was then handling trains 27-28, the Carolina Specia... (more)

This is a shot I obtained many years from the late Shelby Lowe. I believe the original photographer was Dick Sharpless. This is the Southern Railway I recall as a youngster---green F-units on frei... (more)

This is a staged L&N p.r. photo. The young girl waving to the engineer is standing alongside the double-tracked main line to Nashville--a few miles south of Louisville--for no apparent reason. Thi... (more)

Dieselization came to Southern's Appalachia Division in 1947 when this four-unit F3 set arrived. Nicknamed "Big Sid," the four units had extra ballast installed to improve rail adhesion. This east... (more)

Dieselization came to Southern's Appalachia Division in 1947 when this four-unit F3 set arrived. Nicknamed "Big Sid," the four units had extra ballast installed to improve rail adhesion. This east... (more)

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)

The end of steam on the L&N was near when Baldwin M-1 1962 (one of 42 engines in that class, nicknamed "Big Emmas" by their crews) takes on coal at Ravenna after being turned. This was a Cincinnat... (more)

While L&N mail and express train number 4 readies for departure, Monon’s number 6 rolls out for Chicago in this Louisville Union Station scene from 1964. Number 4’s power is a motley mix of E6... (more)

Mikes 1896 and 1831—a J-4A-J-4 doubleheader---blast out of Corbin on the “High Line” with a DeCoursey-bound train in 1942. The double tracked Cumberland Valley Division to Loyall is in the f... (more)