White extra flags are being placed on the front of L&N RS-3 240 for a very special run. For more than a decade, L&N operated several “Kiddie Specials” each March for Louisville-area elementary... (more)

This derailment occurred during the infamous 1955 strike on the L&N Railroad. On Saturday, April 23, 1955, engines 306, 238, 117 and 301 (two FA2 Alco cab units spliced by two RS3 road switchers) ... (more)

L&N homemade J2-A Mike (built at South Louisville Shops--1918) 1462 is working helper duty at Baileys, KY (or Bailey's Switch as it's also called) about 1949. This hill required a round-the-clock ... (more)

In 1954, the late David P. Morgan, editor of Trains Magazine, spent a few weeks on the L&N Railroad gathering data for a major story for the magazine. “This is Louisville & Nashville” appeared... (more)

L&N SDP35 #1223 resting at Ravenna, KY with SD40-2 #8081 || October 1980

CSX uses big C-Cs on coal coming into mobile these days, but in the early 1980s, L&N went through a period where it seemed they thought GP38s were the perfect power for every application. In this ... (more)

In 1980 you could generally still identify the L&N and SCL run-throughs and the West Point Route trains by their power, but that would start changing soon as 'Family Lines' went from marketing gim... (more)

This run-through has just picked-up a new crew for the jaunt down L&N to Mobile, but they haven't quite entered L&N rails so I stuck with the WofA train number. U23B 2707 is a former Monon unit, a... (more)

U30Cs with a train of L&N coal wait on Camak's southwest side for the mixed train from Macon to arrive. Once the mixed is past, the coal train will head to Milledgeville, where it will make the la... (more)

A trio of C-C GEs heads for their train of coal empties near Colunbia's Devine Junction hotspot. That's SAL's now-removed viaduct in the background.

In a nice image made by Tom Smart, 660 is assited by a GP30, RS3 and an FA in the old blue scheme.

The L&N company photographer has arranged to stop train 70 on a June morning in 1957 at the big trestle at Independence. Up front today is an A-B-B-A set of F-units (F9/F7/F3/F7). Lead unit 924 is... (more)

This is an L&N company photo (original photographer unknown). The train is Cincinnati-Knoxville (TN) day local number 29, which made all the stops on this, the "KY" Subdivision of L&N's Cincinnati... (more)

Looking out over the nose of L&N E7 760, this is the view from the fireman’s seat as train 6, the New Orleans-Cincinnati “Humming Bird” approaches its final stop at CUT in the Queen City. Th... (more)

This is another unidentified oldie from my collection. The scene is almost certainly L&N’s eight-stall roundhouse (with 75-foot turntable) at Pensacola, FL. Such a calamity pictured here was act... (more)