still had cabooses back then no blicking light and had full crew
@jjstrains454727 күн бұрын
I see plenty of those 1700s. Boy were they bow wows. Some of them found there way into East Side Yard Philadelphia.
@Nashvillesteam422 ай бұрын
I was on the old L&N railroad today in crofton kentucky and I found an old 1950 L&N railroad spike
@colinmulder68062 ай бұрын
SWEET video of original CSX power, how did you come across it?
@michaelengland47934 ай бұрын
I can't wait to hire onto csx out of Osborn yard in Louisville and do this😊
@nearzine4 ай бұрын
I recommend you don’t 😂
@michaelengland47934 ай бұрын
@@nearzine Nah I'm going to stick to my dream job
@mbartmess2954 ай бұрын
Love this!
@mbartmess2954 ай бұрын
Excellent, concise narration and great to be able to see the countryside and towns along the line.....just what I've been looking for since I can't visit in person...... Thank you again for all the work you put into this. I have learned a lot and enjoyed it.
@mbartmess2954 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for your descriptions of the early line between Louisville and Elizabethtown. I have been trying to find out more about Muldraugh Hill and surrounding area along the line during early Civil War - Sept 1861..... You gave me an actual description of that part of the route! Yay! I'm following the 39th Indiana Infantry from Jay County through their time in Kentucky before the Battle of Shiloh. Their regimental history is scant when it comes to their time and mission at Muldraugh Hill, Camp Nevin and Camp Wood along the L&N Line.
@AlfredPeeler-yj6sw5 ай бұрын
My heart will always belong to the NC&St.L. My father was an electrical engineer with the NC until ìts formal merger with the L&N in 1957. Got my first cab-ride at age 3, and have been a railroad fan for 70 years.
@malcolmmarzo24616 ай бұрын
Some of the best railroading video I have seen.
@GaryRichardson-lt7gh7 ай бұрын
R.I.P. to the old reliable L&N, from steam to diesel, many thanks to a railroad that made it in the history books, just like all the others.😌👏👏👏👍👍✌️
@donkkong555110 ай бұрын
When I was a kid living in Newark Delaware in the 80's these would always come through with various Chessie loco's I remember seeing the L&N pass quickly by being confused thinking it was a Seaboard Coast Line engine those two paint schemes are so close.
@captainraf4463 Жыл бұрын
What did you use to film? Curious. 😅 Gopro w Chest mount? Please would like to know. 🙏
@WoodenAxle Жыл бұрын
You guessed it! Only, a head mount instead of chest.
@treemanclint2883 Жыл бұрын
That was the funnest eras of railroading. Power lash ups from all the former lines and old rolling stock that for a time seemed to be getting extra use before it all disappeared. I lived close to the main to Chicago in southern Indiana and it was common for a few years to see them double head the trailer train to Chicago on Sunday afternoon along with many other unusual consist. 6-12 units of every name and era all mixed together, even road slugs and yard switchers thrown in for main line power. Some you would see over and over for awhile, others I'm sure may well of been on a fair well journey to the scrap yard.
@krisone5253 Жыл бұрын
Now THEY HAVE NAMED THE ARENA THE L&N STATIOM! The old L&N Building is still standing today in Louisville Kentucky!
@Industrialmodels2 Жыл бұрын
America peaked somewhere between 55 and 65……thanks for posting
@fakecumberland Жыл бұрын
So much you can’t see anymore. Where to start?
@andrewganley9016 Жыл бұрын
Just got to love those old Chessie Kitten logos!
@davenelson-xk6oc Жыл бұрын
I live at the chestnut street YMCA at 10 street and chestnut and watch tou guys come thru our neighborhood
@McCloud01 Жыл бұрын
41:05 Sounds awesome
@peterizzi2904 Жыл бұрын
Wow! Stepping back in time!!!
@alternative890 Жыл бұрын
Did these trains have cabooses at the end of their freights, or was it the FRED? Flashing Rear End Device?
@krisone5253 Жыл бұрын
CSX now runs L&N RAILROAD. It's so much fun to watch the history of the old Railroad Company. Started in the 1800's. Their Rail lines are still around this city. Awesome 🌝👍
@Txloganc3 ай бұрын
Thanks for stating the obvious
@geodeuce2 жыл бұрын
Is muldroigh hill Still Double tracked?
@WoodenAxle2 жыл бұрын
Yes. From Bardstown Jct up the hill to just south of Elizabethtown.
@geodeuce2 жыл бұрын
By the time this video was shot to the Lebanon branch have any traffic?
@jwbrown19592 жыл бұрын
Would have been a better video had it had more actual L&N trains. But still enjoyable.
@unclejoe55412 жыл бұрын
5 GP16s walkin' and talkin'. and can hear the rapid chop of U18B baby boat from a mile away. Beautiful.
@kawaiikindcake10232 жыл бұрын
That is so beautiful just absolutely beautiful with the lights on the incoming train and the sunset paired with the music made me cry tears of joy
@AlcoLoco2512 жыл бұрын
7:38 That's the Henderson Bridge over the ohio river between Evansville, IN and Henderson, KY. 2.3 miles long because of the floodplains it runs over.
@mattstarr82032 жыл бұрын
they took over the Monon railroad through most of Indiana
@cagorrie2 жыл бұрын
The more I look at this and listen to it the more I love it, you have a very cool style of shooting and editing videos
@nearzine2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! I can’t wait to get back to that magical place.
@Nethanel7732 жыл бұрын
Great video! This video crew took shot at some locations I have not seen in other videos and photos on the L&N Mainline. Thanks for putting this up.
@Mudpaws2 жыл бұрын
Really wish these railroads never merged
@SamLovesTrains2 жыл бұрын
Which VHS to digital converter do you use? Great quality!
@Nethanel7732 жыл бұрын
So much for guitars and banjos - it's lo-fi chillstep... and it's awesome! And great job on the vantage points and editing. Thanks for putting this up.
@Nethanel7732 жыл бұрын
Cool! Thanks for putting this up.
@Nethanel7732 жыл бұрын
Thanks for putting this up.
@Nethanel7732 жыл бұрын
Wow! Something about just feels trippy, especially passing by Clagg Tower and moving through the trusses. The positions of the camera and the way it seems to float. Do anything special, or did you just hold the camera outside the window? Maybe it's fascinating because I've never seen a cab video over a stretch of Louisville track I've known for years. Anyways, thanks for putting this up!
@Nethanel7732 жыл бұрын
Btw, you mentioned morale at CSX was at a high at the time. I know that was a couple years before PSR changed everything. Even so, as a railfan since the 90s, I've heard mostly complaints about working for CSX compared to other railroads.
@nearzine2 жыл бұрын
I’ve read all you comments and thank you so much for writing. For this video I had the camera on a mono-pod.
@Nethanel7732 жыл бұрын
Whoa! First cab video I've seen on the Henderson Sub on the long rise ascending to the bridge! Thanks for putting this up!
@Nethanel7732 жыл бұрын
As long as I've been a railfan, the last thing I expected to see was a railroad video married to trip-hop ambient chill. Love it! Great work filing and putting this together! Thanks for sharing.
@Nethanel7732 жыл бұрын
Whoa! Where did you get this? I know there have been L&N tribute videos, I'm thinking mainly the one released by Herron Rail, but I have not known of this. Nice! Thanks for putting this up!
@nearzine2 жыл бұрын
An engineer I used to work with had a bunch of old VHS that I digitized for him. This was one of them.
@1olddirtroad Жыл бұрын
@nearzine I really enjoyed watching this! Great job 😎 I grew up living close to the L&N RR and my Grandmother lived close in Franklin Tennessee. Thankfully the Williamson County Historical Society partnered with L&N and saved the Workers House on 3rd Avenue in Franklin. Thanks again for this video!
@TheLocutus702 жыл бұрын
Lebanon Junction, I used to live there. The coal bin is still there.
@25mfd2 жыл бұрын
really nice vid... in the early 90s i hired on as a switchman for the chicago and northwestern and worked at our janesville wis yard GM assembly plant (now demolished) ... i worked our "plant job" as a helper a few times, could never hold it regular as the foreman and helper hired on in 1966... that was one of my favorite jobs it was always cool to see the inside of that plant... however the crossings on the plant grounds were WORSE than any highway crossing i've ever seen... speed demons for real... those UAW plant workers would rawhide those new tahoes all over the plant grounds, you had to be really careful when going through those crossings... keep making these vids, brings back nice memories of fun times switching
@nearzine2 жыл бұрын
I feel you on those rawhiders! Ford rented cops to come patrol them for every time we had to give them a switch.
@bluegrassman30402 жыл бұрын
I live right beside this line in Robards, KY. I also know a couple of former engineers that operated from Evansville to Nashville, TN.
@JimmyDean13122 жыл бұрын
Saw this at the theater in Dunsmuir, fricken good stuff! me and my homie loved the aesthetics of it!
@nearzine2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Glad you liked it. I was hoping to be there but wasn’t able to make the journey.
@jonfromstearns2 жыл бұрын
I love it that “My Old Kentucky Home” was played at the intro. At least they got that right. Cumberland Falls is actually in McCreary County, which is Southern Railway (now Norfolk Southern) territory. It has a Whitley County address. The old L&N freight and passenger depot in downtown Williamsburg still stands. CSX doesn’t run very many trains through the area any longer.
@Nethanel7732 жыл бұрын
"CSX doesn’t run very many trains through the area any longer." I know CSX lost traffic on the CV and EK Subs from mines closing. But you mentioned WIlliamsburg, that's on the CC Sub. So traffic on that line has fallen, too?
@TrainTrackTrav2 жыл бұрын
Leslie RS5Ts and big tag Nathan K5LAs. Some sweet sweet sounds!
@JohnSmith-vb9ul2 жыл бұрын
When EMD ruled the world...
@TheRealJRC2 жыл бұрын
Excellent footage! Boy do I miss the uniqueness and the bad ass RS5T horns with those manual values. Never thought they’d be gone. These new train horns sound like constipated cows.