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Wiley H. Sullivan Collection

 

L&N No. 245 Class K-5 Pacific. Circa 1940.

This 4-6-2A had a 25"x28" cylinders, 73" drivers, and exerted 42,735 lbs. of tractive effort after the boiler pressure was increased from 200 to 210 lbs. These engines were retired beginning in 1951. 

Harry Eubank

Steam Collection

Jerry Sullivan Photos

Diesel Collection

LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAILROAD

 

L & N CLASS K 4-6-2 PACIFIC

 

Wiley H. Sullivan Collection

 

L&N No. 410 Class L-1 Mountain Type

L&N "Crack" Train No. 99

"Pan-American Limited"

Wiley H. Sullivan Collection

 

No. 2212 Class K-4A Light Pacific

Near Louisville, KY. July, 1948

 

Class K-4A Light Pacific (4-6-2) was used on branch lines and lessor trains. Most of these came off of the LH&StL railroad (or "Texas" which ran from South Louisville, along the Ohio R. to Henderson, KY), when that line was purchased by the L&N about 1925, although the L&N had several similar engines, built at South Louisville, between 1915 and 1925.  

The extra digit was temporarily assigned for accounting purposes when the engine was built, but became a permanent fixture.

 

 

Wiley H. Sullivan Collection

 

No. 187 Class K-2 Pacific

Norton, Virginia. Circa 1946

 

Wiley H. Sullivan Collection

 

L&N No. 2215 Class K-4A Light Pacific

Cincinnati, Ohio. Oct 1937  

Light Pacific Class K-4A was used on branch lines and lessor trains. Most of these came off of the LH&StL railroad (or "Texas" which ran from South Louisville, along the Ohio R. to Henderson, KY), when that line was purchased by the L&N about 1925, although the L&N had several similar engines, built at South Louisville, between 1915 and 1925.  

 

 

Wiley H. Sullivan Collection

 

L&N No. 249 Class K-4B Pacific

Louisville, KY 1920

 

Shown when new at South Louisville in 1920

 

Wiley H. Sullivan Collection

 

No. 272 Class K-5 Pacific

Louisville, KY. Circa 1948

 

 

Wiley H. Sullivan Collection

 

No. 274 Class K-5 Pacific

Louisville, KY 1924

 

Shown when new at South Louisville in 1924

 

 

 

Wiley H. Sullivan Collection

 

No. 276 Class K-5 Pacific

Louisville, KY. Circa 1948

 

 

 

Wiley H. Sullivan Collection

 

No. 276 Class K-5 Pacific

Louisville, KY. November 16, 1949

 

 

Wiley H. Sullivan Collection

 

L&N No. 240 Class K-5 Pacific

DeCoursey, Kentucky

 

L&N usually serviced their own engines at DeCoursey rather than let the CUT (Cincinnati Union Terminal) shop do it.  The engine could have arrived on any number of locals from either Louisville or  Corbin.  DeCoursey has been abandoned, but many times CSX wishes they had not been so hasty to do so.  It was, until Radnor was redone in 1954, the L&N's most modern yard.  It is about 5 miles south of the Ohio River alongside the Corbin line.

 

Wiley H. Sullivan Collection

 

L&N No. 277 Class K-5 Pacific

December 17, 1940. Sebree, KY

Engineer J.M. Covert leads the first Dixie Flagler train south through Kentucky on December 17, 1940.

A 29-hour Chicago to Miami service, the Dixie Flagler's route was C&EI to Evansville, L&N to Nashville, NC&StL to Atlanta, AB&C to Waycross, ACL to Jacksonville, and FEC for the final leg to Miami. AB&C, C&EI, NC&StL, and L&N (pictured here) each streamlined their Pacific-type engines for the run. The Pacific class engines L&N used on the South Wind and Dixie Flagler were L&N's first lightweight streamliners to run on any of its routes.

No 277 was one of three K-5s streamlined by the L&N for the South Wind and Dixie Flagler, both of which ran every third day. No. 275 and No. 277 were painted gray with a colorful trim. 

 

Wiley H. Sullivan Collection

 

No. 218 Class K-4 Pacific

West Knoxville, TN. July 28, 1935

 

 

Wiley H. Sullivan Collection

 

No. 164 Class K-2a Pacific

Flomation, Fl. 1934

 

 

University of Louisville L&N Collection

No. 277 Class K-5 Pacific Streamlined for the "Dixie Flagler"

South Louisville Shops. Louisville, KY. December 1940

 

 

Wiley H. Sullivan Collection

No. 277 Class K-5 Pacific Streamlined for the "Dixie Flagler". 

L & N  LINKS
 

CLINCHFIELD LINKS
  • Clinchfield - This guide covers, in great detail, the CSX ex-Clinchfield from the terminal in Erwin, Tennessee, thru Elkhorn City, Kentucky, and then continues on the ex-Chesapeake and Ohio to Shelby Yard in Shelbiana, Kentucky, a distance of about 149 timetable miles. 
  • Clinchfield Railroad - This collection of web sites is the collaborative effort of several Clinchfield railfans bringing to you the glory of this somewhat remote railroad
  

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