L&N 152, Light Pacific 1985

Light Pacific documents an exciting look at turn-of-the-century motive power as L&N K-2a Pacific #152 makes a break- in run from Louisville to Lexington. The 80-year old locomotive works beautifully as she steams through Long Run, fights her way up the 1.16% grade of Jett hill and rolls down Benson Creek valley. You'll also enjoy in-the-cab action and pacing in this 25-minute look at a vintage Rogers Pacific hard at work in central Kentucky.
This program was produced by the now defunct Lasting Impressions, a video company that operated out of Louisville Kentucky from 1982 to 1991 making railroad videos. Most if not all of the Lasting Impressions shows are lost with only 10 having been found up to this point in Time. Nickel Plated Productions does not lay claim to the ownership of this program or its copyright. Ownership/copyright belongs to Lasting Impressions. This has been uploaded in an effort to preserve its historical contents.
Special thanks to Drayton Blackgrove of Delay In Block Productions for providing me a copy of this long lost show.
His channel can be found here:
/ @delayinblockproductions

[@johnbosler2211]

Rode several excursions behind her as a young man, beautiful engine

[@fatman7686]

I still own this VHS and wore it OUT when I was a kid. Thank you for uploading all three programs from Lasting Impressions, as I’d never had the chance to see “Second Section” and “Pacific Through The Cumberlands” until now.

[@danielboone3770]

I LOVE L&N #152! What an inspirational beauty.

[@EngineerDaylight]

152 is a Great Sounding Engine. One of the finest Pacifics to run in excursion

[@brianfalzon6739]

152 could do a quadrupleheader with 2008, 587 and 2716 one day, maybe for a gathering of steam in Ravenna, Kentucky also too!

[@EngineerDaylight]

@@brianfalzon6739 if you're referring to RJ Corman 2008, she's not coming back anytime soon.

[@brianfalzon6739]

@@EngineerDaylight what do you mean? What’s been going with her then?

[@brianfalzon6739]

@@EngineerDaylight what happened to 2008?

[@brianfalzon6739]

@@EngineerDaylight she's not going to be stuffed and mounted, isn't she?

[@CrossOfBayonne]

This locomotive is going to make a comeback, Let steam return to its glory

[@nathancorcoran5347]

Great video of Louisville & Nashville 152. I hope it would be back to operation soon.

[@danielboone3770]

I wish I saw this train in 1985.

[@Rebel9668]

I did...or at least it was sometime in the mid to later 80's. There was track down nearly to the 4th street wharf back then and I watched it pull in down there while waiting for the Great Steamboat race to start during a derby festival :) Several years later in the early 90's I participated in train robberies on its runs between New Haven & Boston, KY and even got a "cab ride", that being said, a cab ride on #152 back then actually meant sitting on a buckboard wagon seat that sat atop the front of the tender. If you ducked your head down you could see inside the cab but if you sat straight up you ate cinders & smoke, LOL! I got a "free" souvenir during that ride as some of those cinders burnt tiny little holes in my shirt! :D

[@olgamakarova5520]

DELIGHTED THANKS 🎉❤ 🎉❤ 🎉❤ 😊

[@brianfalzon6739]

152 could do a quadrupleheader steam excursion and future gathering in Ravenna, Kentucky with 2008, 587 and 2716 one day!

[@BenBensonStudios]

Weren't some of these shots used in Pacific Princess by Berkshire Productions?

[@NickelPlatedProductions]

Yes, the In Cab material shot by Ron Durham for this show was used in Pacific Princess

[@ethanarmitage5611]

My name is Uncle Ethan Armitage.

[@nicholasmedovich6729]

1:54 is that Carl Kruger?? Or is that someone else with KRM

[@NickelPlatedProductions]

That is someone else, who was at KRM

[@mattymotors5467]

Hate to be that guy. But some clups are Louisville to Lexington and some are the opposite