At 103 years old, this is still one of the finest looking locos around. L&N 152 has 69” drivers, 20x28” cylinders, and makes 27,600 lbs. of tractive effort.
Modern tractors face off with a century old “tractor” of a different sort.
Looking good in fairly new paint.
What was Family Lines anyway? Best I can describe it is as a CSX "skin". Note bad paint job, though.
Columbia, or Cayce. Nice new GE with plenty of windows, no exhaust silencer, just right.
Note scrap pieces of marble at left
Kudzu is still dormant this early in the year
Not environmentally 'correct' in today's terms!
Solid SD40/40-2 lashup, once common; former station at right
All locomotives in the Family Lines paint scheme
It was almost an afterthought to turn and photograph this last movement at dusk in October of 1976, as two Louisville & Nashville U30 C's, with caboose 6370 in trail, hammer across the IHB and Che... (more)
886 check, 887 check, 888 check... Work continues inside the firebox of L&N 152 to get her ready for Kentucky Railway Museums' 2008 season.
Local power parked for the weekend
Roundhouse in background
