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Harry Eubank Photo. Jerry H. Sullivan Collection. 1955
Jerry H. Sullivan in the Cab of FA Unit No. 307 South Louisville Shop. Louisville, KY. 1955
Jerry H. Sullivan Collection. 1955
Harry Eubank (left) and Mike Traeger. 1956 Harry Eubank, Engineer for this E Unit, shaking hands with "Uncle" Mike Traeger, his fireman for several years near the end of his career. This photo was taken about 1956 or 57. "Uncle" Mike worked on for 3 years after 1958, then retired, and died of cancer less than 2 years after that.
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Harry Eubank Steam Collection
Jerry Sullivan Photos
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Jerry H. Sullivan Collection. 1942
Harry Eubank (left), Engineer for E-6 No. 753
Louisville Depot. Louisville, KY 1942
Harry Eubank (left), L&N Engineer for No. 753, in April or May of 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky. The Diesel is one of the first set of sixteen E-6 units which were acquired in late April 1942 from Electro-Motive Corporation by L&N. Eventually, there were 6 or 8 sets of these (2 units each) and they were used to power the Pan-American and a few other critical passenger trains during the rest of World War II, after which E-7s were purchased, along with a few FP-7s to completely dieselize L&N passenger trains.
The other gentleman is a traveling engineer, or what we call a Road Foreman today. He was a member of management, usually a promoted engineer, who was responsible for the discipline, training, etc. of head-end crews. Train Masters were generally responsible for the rest of the crew. At this point, Harry usually wore an old business suit to run the train - it was his way of poking fun at diesels, which when new were much cleaner than steam.
Jerry H. Sullivan Collection. 1950
Harry Eubank (Center), Engineer for E-7 No. 779
Louisville Depot. Louisville, KY. Spring 1950
Harry Eubank, Engineer, is in the middle. The photo was taken in the back of the Louisville Depot in the spring of 1950. No. 779 has a special paint job as it was regularly assigned to the original Humming Bird.
Harry Eubank Photo
Jerry H. Sullivan Collection. 1955
Jerry H. Sullivan Dismounting No. 760 EMD E7
South Louisville Shop. Louisville, KY. 1955
Jerry H. Sullivan Collection. 1950
Harry Eubank, Engineer for E6 No. 778
Louisville, KY. May 1950
No. 778 just arrived from Nashville, in May 1950, with #8, the Eastern Express which was actually an every pig-path local that stopped at least 20 times between Nashville & Louisville and operated on about a 6 hour schedule. The Humming Bird and South Wind ran it non-stop in approximately 3.5 hours (187 miles).
Mike Traeger Photo. Jerry H. Sullivan Collection
Harry Eubank's Last Run before retirement
December 31, 1958
Photo taken by Mike Traeger, Uncle Harry's fireman, on Dec. 31, 1958, as he was performing his last run as a locomotive engineer on an E-6. The next year Harry was temporarily recalled to duty as a consultant to train another engineer on "how to run a steam loco" when the L&N leased an IC engine to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first through train, Louisville to Nashville, however, he did not actually ride the train... But Jerry took the opportunity to hitch a ride.
Charles B. Castner Photo.
University of Louisville L&N Collection
Retirement of Mike Traeger
Union Station. Louisville, KY. June 28, 1963
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