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.
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)
The intricate Louisville and Nashville logo and paint scheme is seen on the nose of EMD GP7 No. 405 at the Tennessee Central Railway Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, on a rainy May 9, 2014.
An L&N GE U30C leads two other units on eastbound coal in the morning at Tucker.
An L&N GP38AC is leading four other units as an eastbound freight pulls over the summit of the grade at Tucker.
Not all of L&N's coal is on the east end. These empties are just north of the Tennessee line as they head back to the mines in west Kentucky for reloading.
LN yard job switching Corbin
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)
It's all-L&N at the tail end of this northbound freight, with a scale test car and home-road boxcar tucked just ahead of the bright red cab.
L&N 1315 in very fresh paint, belches out some of that famous Alco smoke during a photo run by
Flash floods washed out the tracks over Racoon Mtn before this L&N tonnage train could stop.
