After running New Orleans to Montgomery on the L&N, this train will soon be headed for Atlanta via the WofA/A&WP with a new number - 216. It will finish its journey to Hamlet, NC over SCL's former... (more)

A trio of U23Bs team with a U25B to power a southbound freight past shabby Union Station.

An unusual power set (two SDP35s bracketing an SD35) gets even stranger with the addition of SW1500 5004. The switcher may be headed for a quarterly, buts its position in the lead is a little odd.

L&N 8072 coming into Corbin Yard.

L&N leaned heavily to four-axle power through Montgomery back in the 1970s but, as this photo shows, the C-Cs showed up as well.

After a Hamlet-Atlanta leg on SCL and an Atlanta-Montgomery trip over the West Point Route, Train 615 is a few minutes into the Montgomery-New Orleans run over L&N.

L&N SD40-2 3583 at Tilford Yard in Atlanta, October 1978

A southbound freight passes Montgomery's hot spot, the tower near Bell Street. WofA's line to Selma and the ICG to Tuscaloosa split off here, and the SCL line to Waycross can be seen to the right ... (more)

A handicapped man who used to visit the Union Station platforms to watch trains waves at the crew of a northbound.

Louisville & Nashville SD40 #1248 in the Tilford Yard engine terminal. L&N SD40 #1248, built August 1970, later became SBD/CSX #8324

Louisville & Nashville SD40 #1248, running as L&N Extra 1248 South, leads a coal train downtown. L&N SD40 #1248 was built August 1970 and later became SBD/CSX 8324

Louisville & Nashville SD40 #1235 and U30C #1581, power off SCL 308's train, parked in front of the SCL yard office waiting to double its pick up to its train (in the siding to the left of the GP1... (more)

Back in L&N days, four-axle power was the norm for most trains on the south end of the railroad, so this power set (2 U30Cs and an SD40) was a good catch as it passed Bell Street tower on its way ... (more)