Louisville
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Standard Gauge Headquarters: Louisville, KY Years of Operation: 1850-1982 Predecessor Roads: New Orleans, Mobile & Texas Successor Roads: Seaboard System Miles Operated:
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| The Louisville & Nashville
Railroad was chartered in Kentucky on March 5, 1850. L&N acquired its
first tracks in Mississippi on October 5, 1881, when it bought the New
Orleans, Mobile & Texas Railroad running from Mobile, AL to New
Orleans, LA. L&N merged with Seaboard Coast Line to form Seaboard
System in 1982.
Suggested reading: Where CSX Goes to Sea by Jerry Lachaussee and Parker Lamb, Trains magazine, January 1987 |
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A northbound L&N passenger train stops at the Biloxi depot in 1912. |
L&N depot in Pascagoula in 1914. |
A short 4-car passenger train is lead by Pacific 178 at Gulfport in August 1938. |
L&N 181 at the resort community of Ocean Springs about 1920. |
L&N 2-8-0 No. 1055 leads a freight up Commerce St. north of the depot in Mobile, AL in July 1933. |
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L&N 1026 was mainline freight power for the NO&M sub of the L&N at the time of this photo taken at Gulfport, MS in the 1930's. |
L&N 2-8-2 1589 later became common freight power on the south end of the L&N. Location of this photo is unknown. |
L&N Pacific (4-6-2) No. 152 at Gulfport on August 6, 1938. This engine continues to haul tourists at the Kentucky Railway Museum today. |
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L&N Pacific 264 pinch-hits for the more common diesel power on the northbound Humming Bird at Gulfport on May 20, 1950. |
Going away view of the Humming Bird at Gulfport on May 20, 1950. |
L&N 1332 with a southbound freight approaching the depot at Biloxi on May 12, 1940. |
Mikado 1541 crosses 25th Ave in downtown Gulfport on May 20, 1950. |
L&N 1328 with a southbound freight approaching the depot at Gulfport in August 1938. |
L&N FP-7 663 with Train 9, the Coast Commuter train to New Orleans lays over in Ocean Springs on April 10, 1954. |
A local freight lead by GP-20 No. 903 switches at Long Beach. |
L&N wood caboose 884 at Bay St Louis in October 1965. |
Caboose 191 at Bay St. Louis in October 1966. |
L&N GP-9 511 switches City Spur in Pascagoula in 1965. |
L&N caboose 429 trails a northbound freight at Long Beach in April 1968. |
L&N GP-9 508 in the newer gray and yellow paint at Pascagoula in August 1966. |
L&N depot at Waveland in 1966. |
A northbound freight at Long Beach behind 621 in April 1968. |
L&N No. 666 on a freight at Long Beach in April 1968. |
FP-7 691 on a northbound passenger train at Gulfport in April 1968. |
L&N 691 northbound at Ocean Springs in October 1968. |
A southbound freight passes the city jail at Gulfport in February 1966. |
A southbound freight behind 835 crosses the West Pascagoula River and passes the creosote plant at Gautier in October 1968. |
L&N local switches at Long Beach in the late 1960's. |
L&N E7s 779 and 761 on Train 1, the southbound Azalean, at Ocean Springs on Sept. 16, 1949. |
FP-7 663 at Gulfport in the mid-1950's. |
L&N 663 and caboose at Gulfport. |
The L&N turntable at Bay St. Louis in the late 1960's. |
L&N Alco switching at Bay St. Louis. The passenger depot at right still stands today. |
L&N 363 switching at Bay St. Louis. |
L&N 550 leads a freight up Commerce St. on L&N's street trackage north of the passenger station at Mobile, AL on March 24, 1969. |
2-8-0 1306 and auxiliary water car at Gulfport in the 1940's. |
2-8-2 1785 at Three Mile Creek drawbridge at Mobile, AL in the 1940's. |
L&N 1805 and 1502 at Flomaton, AL in 1950. |
An L&N local waits at Biloxi for a northbound passenger train. |
L&N 401 with a northbound freight along Commerce St. in Mobile. |
L&N Alco #138 at Pascagoula, MS. Mississippi Export's Pascagoula office is on the left. |
L&N GP-18 900 southbound at Mobile, AL. |
An L&N local waits in the clear at Ocean Springs, MS about 1970. |
L&N 793 northbound makes a station stop at Pascagoula, MS. |
An L&N freight at the south end of Harbin siding near Pass Christian, MS. |
An L&N local behind GP-7 410 meets a northbound passenger train at Harbin, MS. |
An A-B-A set of F-units south of Montgomery in 1955. |
Pacific 233 at Canal St. Station in New Orleans about 1950. |
GP-7 No. 551 on local freight No. 44 at Mississippi City on July 13, 1957. |
E6 753 on a troop train waits in the clear at Gulfport as Train 4 with engine 651 eases by. |
Three geeps lead 92 cars on a northbound freight departing Montgomery on June 3, 1955. |
GP-7 550 on No. 43 crosses the Pascagoula River drawbridge in 1958. |
FP-7 666 on No. 4, the Azalean, after a rare South Mississippi snowfall at Beauvoir in December 1963. |
A local freight waits in the clear at Mississippi City in the mid-1950's. |
E-6 773 makes a fine sight as it leads a southbound passenger train at Ocean Springs. |
A northbound freight eases across the drawspan of Biloxi Bay in September 1961. |
603 leads a southbound freight over the Pascagoula River. |
GP-30 1033 picks up speed after crossing Biloxi Bay in August 1970. |
652 on a northbound passenger train at Ocean Springs in 1958. |
Alco S-2 switcher No. 39 at Mobile in 1950. |
FP-7 662 northbound at Biloxi Bay. |
Train 5, the Humming Bird, crosses Pascagoula River on December 26, 1961. |
778 crosses Biloxi Bay in June 1955 northbound. |
A southbound freight at Biloxi Bay in October 1971. |
No. 3023 cuts through the morning fog at Henderson Point as the southbound freight prepares to duck under Highway 90 and cross St. Louis Bay in December 1969. |
A northbound freight crosses Pascagoula Draw. |
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