In the late 1970s, Family Lines power was starting to float all over the system, but very few non-SCL units made it to the former ACL main through Charleston, at least in my experience. On this d... (more)
The daily NOLA-Cincy run-through train passes the hot box detector just west of Auburn. Never saw another detector like this one. Maybe a diy job by Western Railway of Alabama?
One of L&N's earliest GP30s has a new paint job. This simplified scheme was one of several variations on L&N gray. It wasn't quite stealth, but with the gray nose (in place of yellow) and yellow... (more)
A Mobile-bound L&N freight slides past the Floridian (powered by a B&O E8A) making its station stop at Montgomery. The freight won't delay the passengers, as just a few hundred yards out of the s... (more)
The daily L&N/West Point Route Cincy-NOLA train rolls through a cut in the Georgia red clay.
A honey-hole of sunlight hits L&N 4124 at just the right moment - the exact opposite of what usually happens to me on partly cloudy days.
The daily run-through freight - delivered to L&N in New Orleans by Southern Pacific - has a quartet of that road's geeps behind a home-road GP38-2. They are just about to depart for Birmingham an... (more)
A unit train of coal from western Kentucky rolls past the tower at Amqui. On the other side of the building is the Louisville line, which is still referred to as 'the main', though it has been ec... (more)
Frequent problems restarting Atlanta-bound trains after the required stop at the Southern crossing in Opelika led to the practice shown in this photo. Crews stopped their trains on the downgrade ... (more)
Back in the days just before Family Lines became a thing, this run-through train originated in Cincy, running down the L&N to Atlanta, then utilizing the A&WP/WRofA to reach Montgomery. Here, the... (more)
L&N Alco C630 # 1427 rests at a small yard in Chicago in the summer of 1979 i those days a lot of Alcos could still be found in the Chicago area and this yard seemed to always have a Big century a... (more)
Headed for Mobile, a freight roars beneath Southern Boulevard at track speed.
Another coal train climbs out of Corbin and heads for Cincinnati. This one has 3,000hp C-Cs from EMD, GE and Alco.
L&N and FL geeps pull a string Frisco covered hoppers.
L&N/WofA run-through train has unusual power on this day, with a U25B and GP9 in place of the usual GP38s and U23Bs.
