L&N eventually acquired a pretty big group of C420s, but not in the usual way. First, L&N purchased 16 new C420s from Alco, then two more were acquired with the takeover of the Tennessee Central,... (more)

L&N GP30 1044, delivered in 1963, was badly damaged in a wreck in 1974. The rebuild resulted in an odd roof profile that combined elements of the original GP30 shape, with the newer Spartan cab s... (more)

A three-builder set of locomotives has an empty coal rain really rolling just a few minutes out from the yard at Corbin.

Fans talked about the CSX 'stealth scheme' when the first very plain, very gray C40-8s arrived around 1990, but L&N had gone stealth years before when in the mid-1970s they stopped painting loco n... (more)

L&N 1030 and 1031 aren't much past their tenth birthdays, but they are already mostly relegated to service on secondary trains, like this long-distance local heading south from S&N Yard. On the r... (more)

This is an absolutely typical power set for L&N unit coal trains in the 1970s, with three U30Cs and an SD40-2. The EMD would outlast the C-boats, but 1549 - renumbered 7243 - did make it into Sea... (more)

Sometimes you'll never know what you will find next to the road in somebody's front yard. Here, we have a fading L&N caboose that has seen better days. If this was in my front yard, I would turn i... (more)

After nearly 60 years of control, parent Louisville & Nashville merged the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis on August 30, 1957. Photographer Henry Libby, photo from my collection.

Having just crossed the Ohio River from Cincinnati, L&N 241 does some street running around the intersection of 6th & Saratoga.

Kentucky Railway Museums L&N 152 leads a ferry move south for Bardstown where that weekend it and the Monon BL2 would lead excursions over the Bardstown Branch. Today the Bardstown Branch is opera... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin Locomotive Works and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive builder's cards when my father would visit hi... (more)

The remnants of Hurricane Zeta have finally started to clear out of the area, leaving a nice sky behind L&N 796, which is on display at the Historic Railpark and Train Museum.

A trio of L&N units are bringing an empty Inland Steel coal train off the IHB onto home rails. Tom Golden photo.

With wash on the line, a suspension footbridge across the creek in the front yard, and coal trains in the back yard, the residence to the extreme right of the photo oozes Appalachia. The train is ... (more)

Three Louisville & Nashville unite still in L&N paint pull northbound empties through Girdler, Kentucky. By this time, it was becoming increasingly difficult to find trains without at least one Fa... (more)