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Index Of L&N Images 3

All images are copyright 1999 Herron Rail Video or to the credited photographer.
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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 DeCoursey Yard Roundhouse, 1959. Look closely at the roundhouse and you'll see a few M1 2-8-4's sticking out with no tenders. L&N kept the tenders and cut the cab roof extensions off before turning some of the engines and coupling them back to back with their drawbars before sending them to the scrappers in Cincinnati.
E.G. Baker photo, Jim Herron collection.

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L&N 2-8-2 1786, class J-4. This engine is performing steam heat duty at Louisville on a string of cars in for the Kentucky Derby. Note the disconnected valve gear. The date on this one is not on the slide but it must be either 1955 or 1956.
E. G. Baker photo, Jim Herron collection.

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L&N 4-6-2 295, the famed South Wind locomotive. Photographer E. G. Baker poses at the front.
A B&W photo retouched and colorized by Jim Herron.

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NC&St.L F7's, location and date unknown.
E. G. Baker photo, Jim Herron collection.

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L&N 1902, J4 class 2-8-2 at South Louisville, KY. Appox. 1955.
E. G. Baker photo. Collection of Jim Herron

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L&N M1 class 2-8-4 1962, Louisville Union Station, Derby Day, May, 1956. Looking grungy at best, L&N's last steam Derby Day appearance was in 1956.
E. G. Baker photo, collection of Jim Herron.

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L&N 1962, M1 class 2-8-4, Louisville Union Station, May, 1956 Derby Day. A film sequence from this same event is in Reflections of American Railroading, video number 006. That video features several Louisville railroads in the early to mid- 1950's. Among them: L&N, Southern, B&O, ICRR, Monon.
E. G. Baker photo. Collection of Jim Herron

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L&N M1 class 2-8-4 1963, Louisville Union Station, Derby Day, May, 1956.
E. G. Baker photo, collection of Jim Herron.

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L&N 2-8-4 1962, class M1, Ravenna, Ky. July, 1956. Looking much better than she did her May Ky. Derby appearance, in July, 1956, she was assigned to a Cincinnati - Ravenna excursion. Here, she rides the Ravenna turntable.
E. G. Baker photo. Jim Herron collection.

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L&N 2-8-4 1962, class M1, Ravenna, Ky. July, 1956. Same location as previous photo, just off the turntable. This engine appears in "Reflections of the L&N", video number 022.

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L&N E6 diesel 770 at Bowling Green, KY, 1970. Note the Monon coach behind the locomotive on this excursion for the Kentucky Railway Museum. This diesel was donated to the museum and is part of their collection today.
E. G. Baker photo. Jim Herron collection.