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Index Of L&N Images

All images are copyright 1998 - 1999 Herron Rail Video or to the credited photographer.
Please feel free to download them but please don't use them for any commercial applications.
Thanks and enjoy - Jim Herron

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All of us have our favorite railroads and mine happens to be the L&N. Growing up in Louisville in the 1950's gave me a strong interest in the last of steam and the first generation diesels of L&N. On this page I'll feature photos from that period. Some of these are colorized versions of black and white originals. I hope you like these.

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L&N 2-8-0 1293 Class H-28 Built by L&N at South Louisville Shops 1911. Photo from Bill Lenoir shows the engine at Atlanta in the early 1950's. Note the red herald on the cab, a practice usually reserved for passenger locos.

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L&N 4-8-2 415 Class L-1 69" drivers Built by Baldwin 1926 for passenger service Shown at South Louisville, 1920's L&N Photo colorized. This pic shows the engine as-delivered, sans-L&N herald on the cab. 415 was the last of the original group of 16 locos from the 1926 order. In 1930, 6 more were acquired for a total of 22 engines. They ran between Cincinnati and Montgomery and between Cincinnati and Knoxville.

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L&N 4-6-2 295 Class K-7 69" drivers Built by Brooks in 1925 with 3 cylinders Rebuilt by L&N in 1940 with 2 cylinders and streamlined. This is a front view of the engine as originally streamlined for the South Wind in 1940. It received a new, larger tender at that time and ran between Louisville and Montgomery.
Photo by E. G. Baker, colorized by J. R. Herron

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L&N 4-6-2 295, again. In the late 1940's, the engine was re-painted in a tuscan red color scheme to match the Pennsylvania Railroad colors applied to the South Wind. This is a tuscan red rendering of the same view as in picture above.
Photo by E. G. Baker, colorized by J. R. Herron

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L&N 2-8-2 1882 Class J-4 63" drivers Built by Alco in 1927, based on USRA Heavy Mikado design L&N owned 355 Mikados and they roamed most everywhere on the system. Of those engines, there were 165 based on the Heavy USRA design. This picture shows the 1882 at Worthville, Ky in January, 1957 as it prepared to haul a local freight to DeCoursey Yard near Cincinnati. It was L&N's last steam run. The engine had been leased to The Carrollton RR, a short line running out of Worthville and this picture was made as the engine waited for the local to arrive with its diesel replacement.
L&N photo, colorized by J. R. Herron

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South Louisville Roundhouse
Pacifics and Mountains occupy the tracks of the South Louisville Roundhouse. Louisville was the heart of the L&N and the roundhouse had 24 stalls. Our video "Reflections of the L&N" (item 022) shows a lot of activity at this location as well as many other parts of the system. See description on the catalog page.
Photo by E. G. Baker, colorized by J. R. Herron

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South Louisville Shop, 1920's
This L&N company picture shows several steam engines in the erecting bays of South Louisville Shops. The shop built 400 new locomotives and 450 boilers between 1905 and 1923 and also maintained most of the rest of it's fleet. In 1918, the shops assembled K-4 Pacific 238 in just five days. After dieselization, this area was used for heavy repairs of diesels. The shops were closed after CSX elected to move its heavy repairs to the former C&O shops at Huntington, WV and the shops were torn down in the 1990's. Today, a new football stadium for University of Louisville occupies the site.
Colorized by J. R. Herron

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L&N E6 750
In 1942, L&N purchased its first road diesels, several EMD E-6 units and assigned them to The Pan American and other passenger trains. It was the beginning of the end for steam on the L&N.
This picture, taken from a company photograph at South Louisville Shops, is a stylized and colorized rendering.
The picture is one of four on our greeting cards (also Christmas Cards). We have a dwindling supply of the cards available at $14.95 per set, plus $3.00 p&h for 1 set, $1.00 p&h for additional sets. The other pictures in the series are the night shot of Pacific 295, The Humming Bird (shown at the top of the home page) and C&O's George Washington at Louisville Union Station. You can sets of each card or mixed with 3 of each per set. Once these are sold out, they will not be repeated. If you're interested, e-mail hrvideo@mindspring.com

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L&N E's at Louisville Union Station, 1956
A nice shot by Tom Bedwell showing 2 of L&N's passenger units in the classic blue and cream colors of the 1950's.
If you'd like to see great action views of L&N's passenger units, get our video Reflections of the L&N. This is an action-packed tape that covers passenger and freight operations on L&N from 1940 to the mid 1970's
See item 022 on the catalog page for a description.