Another U25 captured before the were gone. Louisville seemed especially rapid in getting these in FL so I have almost none in "real" L&N.

I can't let the night go by without an Alco. Somehow that jaunty bell on the ex-Monons just seem to set them apart.

SB "Lynch Turn". I believe those blue cars may have been some leased Texas & Northern 70 tonners leased in desperation.

Last order of GP-40s for what is now CSX was a small one delivered to L&N. This one is waiting at the usual spot to get into former SAL hump yard at Hamlet.

Just another coal train passes through another tiny hamlet on a dank and foggy day.

Got before it faded and peeled. Wish I'd found it a week later.

"Pennyroyal" coal train, bound for the Charleston area crosses NC 38 on a bridge still lettered for a mighty fine railroad.

L&N U25B has a new home in Oak Ridge , Tn.

NB empty train with SOU pool power is in no hurry to go. In those days they'd set for hours.

This originally was the only ACL SDP-35 and was drafted by SCL for transfer to L&N due to a motive power shortage. I'd love to see a shot of this thing in passenger service if that ever took plac... (more)

I believe this was the only U-25B + slug set to be fully in FL colors.

Fairly common in Little Rock I surmised there was a run-through out of Memphis. Note the power assembly access doors L&N liked to put on the roofs of the long hood.

One of the first order of these units.

The last go around for the caboose on Family Lines, you can smell the fresh paint (I'll take the risk and breath deeply).

In those days it seemed like L&N changed the Corbin Division switchers every year and we didn't figure this would be here long so we just sad for a couple of hours and drank in the sound, burble b... (more)