Alco RS-3s of the Louisville & Nashville await assignments at the coalfield terminal at Loyall. Several mine runs were based here at the time, and through trains would often add or drop units base... (more)

L&N’s original F7A unit –number 800—suffered a horrific fate. After it had later been renumbered 847, the engine was on the point of Norton, VA to Corbin, KY through freight 66 on Sunday, June 7, ... (more)

An interesting consist of EMD F7A, Alco FB2, EMD F7A, Alco RS3 and EMD GP7 is handling through freight 66 at Appalachia on a snowy day in the '60s. The units exhibit all three first generation die... (more)

The layover point for the Corbin, KY to Pennington (Gap), VA tri-weekly local--trains 91 and 90--was usually the team track at Pennington, located just behind the depot. On a March day in 1967, nu... (more)

The recently restored L&N 405 shines in the morning sun in Nashvegas.

The passing siding at Kennesaw had recently been extended when this meet took place in 1953. At the time, this line belonged to the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis, and L&N had trackage rights ... (more)

This cab once graced the back of a Louisville & Nashville J-4 class heavy USRA 2-8-2. In 1982 it was still in service for its owner, only as a storage shed at South Louisville Shops. L&N was noted... (more)

This scene doesn't exist today. An L&N SD40-2 is getting attention at the company's huge South Louisville Shops in 1982. The shop was subsequently closed by CSX, and then completely leveled for co... (more)

A nearly new U30C is ready for departure with southbound coal loads.

This is just another meat and potatoes roster shot. In this case, it's a fairly rare Baldwin switcher that went through three different numbers for its first owner, the Nashville, Chattanooga & St... (more)

L&N 863 was very close to the end as she waited at the e.f. in Boyles Yard. I caught her on a Nashville freight a few days later and, though I didn't know it at the time, would never see another L... (more)

Cumberland Valley Division local passenger number 12, a daily Norton, VA to Pineville, KY run, steams downgrade out of Callahan’s Nose Tunnel between Appalachia and Big Stone Gap, Virginia in July... (more)

This is "Big Emma." When the Louisville & Nashville Railroad elected to seriously upgrade its freight motive power in the early '40s, it went whole-hog for a Baldwin-built variant of the Van Sweri... (more)

Coal passes Nashville's Union Station on its way south as a couple of U23Bs idle in the great building's shadow.