Louisville & Nashville SD40-2 #8155, from the 30 units in order #816010, at the Tilford Yard Diesel Service Center. #8155, built September 1981, later became Seaboard System #8155, then CSX 8155

Louisville & Nashville SD40-2 #8159, leading Seaboard Coast Line intermodal train #341's Extra. #8159, built September 1981, later became Seaboard System #8159, then CSX 8159

The headend crew waits in the relatively cool shade of Union Station's dilapidated train shed. May in Nashville can be pretty hot, so anybody in the caboose is likely several degrees warmer.

Two geep-powered freights sit at the north end of the combined L&N/SCL yard. The last crew member is boarding 3014, so it will be first out for Birmingham.

"Photographer's Special" just east of Paris, KY on the TTI Railroad.

Worn-out, obsolete, unneeded - all words that might accurately describe these old locomotives, as well as their dilapidated surroundings. But L&N is going to give several RS-3s (delivered in 1954... (more)

A switch crew works the yard with twenty-two-year-old GP7 430, delivered in February 1953.

A manifest heads east.

This locomotive was spotted at the north end of Sharon Yard.

One of the yard crews at Louisville & Nashville’s Corbin yard assembles a train for a mine run.

Louisville & Nashville road switcher/slug combinations face off in Corbin, Kentucky. A U25B and slug are in the foreground, while an RS-36 paired with a cut-down RS3 point the opposite way in the ... (more)

The engineer of one of Louisville & Nashville’s yard crews in Corbin, Kentucky checks his path as he backs his RS-36/slug combo into the yard.

The majority of the power at Louisville & Nashville’s yard in Corbin, Kentucky in May, 1982 was painted in the Family Lines scheme. A few nice examples of pure L&N paint was present, including ... (more)

Louisville & Nashville U25B 1603, paired with a slug cut down from an RS-3, goes to work in the yard in Corbin, Kentucky.

It's only been a few years since the L&N takeover of the Hoosier Line (Monon) between Louisville and Chicago as a southbound manifest runs the streets of Bedford, Indiana. Seemingly continually en... (more)