Seaboard System C30-7 #7076, U30C #1497, C30-7 #7084 & U36B #5701 lead southbound train #341 off Pine Mountain. #7076 was built Octoberber 1981 as Louisville & Nashville #7076 and later became CS... (more)

Seaboard System GP16 #4979 was built February 1951 as Atlantic Coast Line #141 and later became Seaboard Coast Line #729. In November 1982, unit was released from SCL's GP16 rebuild program as Wes... (more)

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

The historic Crescent Route ran from Atlanta to Montgomery on the A&WP/WofA and from Montgomery to New Orleans on the L&N. This route was changed in the late 60s to ATL-New Orleans via Birmingham ... (more)

Seaboard System U30B #5532, GP38-2 #537 & U36B #1854 yard northbound long distance local #510. Seaboard System U30B #5532 was built February 1967 as Seaboard Air Line #811

Seaboard System B30-7 #5508, U36B #5775, B23-7's #5119 & 5102 and U23B #2812 lead train #323 into the yard. Seaboard System B30-7 #5508 was built March 1980 as Seaboard Coast Line #5508 and later... (more)

Taken from the Roosevelt Road overpass.

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)

On a busy afternoon in Opelika, a local resident finally gets across the tracks on her way home from shopping downtown. Right to left are train 215, an SCL run-through from Hamlet with a WP caboos... (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)

White extra flags are being placed on the front of L&N RS-3 240 for a very special run. For more than a decade, L&N operated several “Kiddie Specials” each March for Louisville-area elementary... (more)

This derailment occurred during the infamous 1955 strike on the L&N Railroad. On Saturday, April 23, 1955, engines 306, 238, 117 and 301 (two FA2 Alco cab units spliced by two RS3 road switchers) ... (more)

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