L&N Corbin-Norton through freight 65 enters the yard at Loyall---meeting a northbound Lynch Turn led by a former Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis F7.

The L&N roundhouse at Loyall, Ky was built in 1921. In the late '50s, after steam was gone (in 1956), five of the nine stalls were demolished, leaving four intact. Except for the equipment---and o... (more)

A TVRM conductor swings off an ex-L&N ACF streamlined coach built for the 1946 "Humming Bird." The scene has a certain air of authenticity, even though it's over four decades removed from the "Bir... (more)

Consecutively-numbered RS-3s 175 and 176 burble along on a summer afternoon long ago at Loyall, KY. The sand car on the right was built by the L&N in its South Louisville Shops on the frame of a s... (more)

Pennington agent/operator J.B.Chadwell points a finger at an approaching motorist at the crossbuck-only unprotected crossing near the depot. He's flagging to allow train 864 to get a "run for the ... (more)

With the long-idle coaling tower as a backdrop, 1103 and its L&N mates mix and mingle with SCL power at the joint S&NA Yard engine facility.

This is the inside of Callahan's Nose Tunnel on the former L&N Cumberland Valley Division. It was last used in 1986, and has now been abandoned (and was so when this shot was taken). Known to trai... (more)

L&N 863 looks good on this sunny June afternoon, but the days of cab units on the L&N are drawing to a close.

Though they occupy adjacent numerical spots in the L&N roster, 5019 and 5020 exhibit different paint schemes, with 5019 in the older slanted lettering with black outlines and scalloped nose, and 5... (more)

The photographer has just finished a ride in the wooden cupola caboose on L&N Extra 177 South. At the "north" end of the yard (crest of the grade), the flagman did a flying switch to let the cab r... (more)

A pair of then-new GE U25Cs has just arrived at Corbin off the Knoxville & Atlanta Division with a freight from Etowah, TN. The three head end crew members (engineer, fireman and head brakeman) ar... (more)

In the hole for a meet with an empty coal train

Five days before Christmas 1965, L&N freight 66 rolls by the engine terminal at Loyall en route to Corbin, KY. The mixture of EMD and Alcos was becoming more common on the CV Division by that time... (more)

Conductor Clyde Robbins (left) confers with Assistant Trainmaster Ray Allen at Loyall as Extra 1511 South--a Lynch Turn---completes a set-off of common hoppers.