A trio of C-Cs - including a Family Lines U30C, L&N SD35 and CN SD40 - heads through Hopkinsville on their way to a rendezvous with a coal train.

L&N Pile Driver 41212 stored at the Kentucky Railway Museum. Steam powered, built 1913.

Ex-L&N 3318 straddles the pit in CSX's open-air engine facility. A couple more ex-L&N U23Bs are on the adjacent track, but an Ex-B&O GP30 breaks up the L&N/GE show.

The crew man on the ground is waiting to get the ok to throw the switch to get onto the B&O tracks.

On a transfer run to DeCoursey I think.

When you can't find an Alco to shoot I guess an old GE U25B is just as good. When L&N U25B's were on their last leg they were used around Cincinnati as transfer power to the other yards around her... (more)

Maintenance of Way equipment is needed to take on some tough jobs and one of most well-known types of MoW equipment is the Difco Dump car built by the Differential Steel Car Company of Findlay, Oh... (more)

In a preview of the FL/SS/CSX future, ACL closed its Montgomery yard in the 1960s, and moved into affiliate L&N's S&NA yard a few hundreds yards to the north. The power in the engine facility on ... (more)

To cut cost, L&N simplified their great gray and yellow scheme several times. The black outlining the yellow was eliminated, the 'pine tree' nose treatment was simplified, lettering was simplifie... (more)

The first step in removal of the superheater tubes from L&N 4-6-2- #152 at the Kentucky Railway Museum. Connections are heated to ease loosening them at the smokebox end of the tubes.

Looking north towards the long gone train shed, this is the view of Nashville Union Station that approaching trains came at. The station is now a museum.

Built by the Louisville & Nashville to serve as the main train station in downtown Nashville, this beautiful old terminal is now an upscale hotel. The train shed and station tacks are gone althoug... (more)

When the L&N Railroad completed the "CC&O Connection" linking its Martin's Fork Branch in Harlan County, KY to the original Cumberland Valley Division at Hagans, VA (via a switchback) in... (more)