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.

Engineer Morgan Calhoun smiles at the photographer as he rolls into the junction point of Baxter with four U25Cs in his command. Ralph Nader wouldn't be too happy with the Corvair waiting on the r... (more)

A northbound freight is panned a couple of miles south of Ashland, VA, on the main line to DC (ex-Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac).

A few miles east of Newport, Southern's leased ex-Texas & Pacific Texas-type 610 rolls along the French Broad River under a thin mix of exhaust steam and oil smoke. The engine is en route to Ashev... (more)

Southern's leased ex-Texas & Pacific Texas-type 610 ambles into Newport, TN---passing the Newport Switcher tied up in the clear. The green flags denote a following section in this stretch, which w... (more)

A Southern bay window cab punctuates the rear of this eastbound coal train in the late evening light. Cabooses were nearly extinct on main line trains by this time, but a few were still in service... (more)

Under a canopy of coal smoke, Southern's ex-C&O Kanawha (2-8-4) rolls an eastbound ferry run during her short stint in excursion service. She's topping the hill here at Oreton, VA, en route to Kno... (more)

Former Southern (ETV&G) No. 154 pulls a trip for the Lexington Group in Transportation History at its 2011 convention in Knoxville.

The “trinity” of the Clinchfield’s successful steam excursion program gathers around the One Spot at a water stop in Johnson City, Tennessee in 1973. Left to right, the road’s chief mechanical off... (more)

It’s Saturday, and school is out---so a few Elizabethton youngsters take in some railroading. The one closest to the engine is studying the 208, but the other boy seems more intrigued by the out-o... (more)

A Utah Railway hoghead at work at Provo.

A string of Utah units does some switching prior to departure at Provo.

The regular station switcher at Louisville Union Station for many years was SW-1 number 14. Here the veteran EMC (not "D") unit places a Railway Express Agency reefer for unloading.

You didn't usually see U25Bs in passenger service, but on this morning in 1965, two of the GEs have just brought in L&N mail and express local number 4. A motive power problem with the train's usu... (more)