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I have lived in Nashville since 1970, and my wife was born and raised there. Her grandfather worked for the NC&StL.

 

We are NC&StL and TC fans, and have NO interest in the L&N, who many locals regard as the usurper railroad!

 

The NC&StL was the TRUE Nashville hometown railroad.

 

Also, the NC&StL Dixie Class J-3 (ALCO) was one of the finest 4-8-4 locomotives ever built! Designed by NC&StL Master Mechanic, Clarence Darden! 

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My grandfather worked for Seaboard in the late 70's and early 80's, so I used to see a lot of Family Lines equipment when I visited him at the yard where he worked. While I don't model the L&N directly, I have several pieces of rolling stock in my "heritage" CSX consists.

I definitely appreciate the L&N from a business perspective--they seem to have been well-run and far more financially stable over the decades than many of their peers.

I do; one of my "home roads" in Mobile, where, along with New Orleans to the West, the L&N stops being an inland, "mountain" railroad and has tracks right down to a saltwater port. It was one of Mobile's four railroads, along with the GM&O (of course), Frisco and Southern. (Plus the Alabama State Docks Terminal Railway.)

 

I re-lettered one of Lionel's USRA Light 4-8-2's for the L&N a few years back. They

owned quite a few and I have a photo or two of one taken here in Mobile when I was

a kid (I didn't take it).

 

 

I don't model the L&N nor the Southern, but my grandfather was retired from the L&N,

working as a cabinet maker installing interiors in cabooses in the Louisville, Ky., shops.  Out of school, I interviewed at the L&N shops, with a reference from one of my grandfather's buddies.  My grandfather bought a farm while working for the L&N, and it bordered the Southern tracks out of Louisville.  My dad fired Southern Consolidations and Mikados during WWII.

Originally Posted by Tinplate Art:

I have lived in Nashville since 1970, and my wife was born and raised there. Her grandfather worked for the NC&StL.

 

We are NC&StL and TC fans, and have NO interest in the L&N, who many locals regard as the usurper railroad!

 

The NC&StL was the TRUE Nashville hometown railroad.

 

Also, the NC&StL Dixie Class J-3 (ALCO) was one of the finest 4-8-4 locomotives ever built! Designed by NC&StL Master Mechanic, Clarence Darden! 

I was not asking about the NC&STL. Your dislike for L&N maybe linked to the fact that L&N bought controlling interest in the NC&STL and the 2 lines merged in 1957.

As far as I know both were great railroads but business is business and money talks and L&N must have had more.

 

I lived in Nashville for 3-4 years , then to Decatur AL., from 1949-1980, The L&N Railroad served a lot of the South as did the NC&STL

 

Thanks for the conversation

 

Brent

I am working on an L&N Train. Here  is a Lionel 2343 set  with L&N shells.  I picke up the shells in Nashville at the TCA Christmas show a couple of years ago. I am sure the pait job is not even close to being correct, but the F3's look good.

 

 

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The bay window caboose started off it's live as a MTH N&W caboose and was re decorated by someone. I also picket it up last year at the Nashville TCA show.

 

 

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And finally here is a picture of the CSX that runs about a  quarter mile behind our house.

 

 

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The NCf&StL line between Memphis and Nashvill was  shorter than the L&N route seen above. The NC&STL tracks remaining in the Memphis area were abandon several years ago and are now a bicyle and walking trail.

 

Have a good week,

 

Richard

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My Step Dad was an Engineer on L&N from WWII through the 70's.  I went to work with him several times in early 60's working switcher's at Strawberry & South Louisville yards when that kind of thing was allowed.  Very good memories.

Layout not completed yet but will be majority L&N Steam to Diesel era equipment.

Although a Mopac man, I just got some L$N items including the MTH RS3s. I like the original scheme with the cream striping a lot better than the basic black or the newer grey.

 

I used to work a transfer run from the Mopac yard in St. Louis to the L&N yard in E. St. Louis, IL back when I was a switchman in the mid 1970's. By then all the units were grey/yellow.  

Dan

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Originally Posted by Richard Gonzales:

I am working on an L&N Train. Here  is a Lionel 2343 set  with L&N shells.  I picke up the shells in Nashville at the TCA Christmas show a couple of years ago. I am sure the pait job is not even close to being correct, but the F3's look good.

 

 

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The bay window caboose started off it's live as a MTH N&W caboose and was re decorated by someone. I also picket it up last year at the Nashville TCA show.

 

 

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And finally here is a picture of the CSX that runs about a  quarter mile behind our house.

 

 

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The NCf&StL line between Memphis and Nashvill was  shorter than the L&N route seen above. The NC&STL tracks remaining in the Memphis area were abandon several years ago and are now a bicyle and walking trail.

 

Have a good week,

 

Richard


Nice pictures, thanks for posting. One of these days I will find a nice L&N Caboose, like you have

Brent

In the later 1970s L&N locomotives started showing up on scl.There seemed to be whole sets of them.It was a bland gray and yellow for a few years.I just don,t think yellow and gray is much of a paintsceam.But then mth came out with a railking l&n berk big emma.I had to have it because the way they are numbered.You see I was born in 1967 the minute I saw it.I had to get one.Another reason is my mother had friend named emma.I know some one is gonna metion that it a nickelplate road.Painted like l&n some my be able to tell the different.But keep in mind that a berk is still a berk.Now I will tell you what suprised me.IC had a few.

I am true blue to the L&N, it ran behind my Grandfathes house where he practiced medicine here in this small town. They ran lots of different engine combos, both owned and leased, I got to ride on the last passenger RUN THEY MADE THROUGH HERE.

 

I wish I had time ,patience and talent to show some of my rolling stock, maybe some day.

 

Ever SEE A GG-1 in the L&N? Well I made MY OWN. That's just one of my oddballs.

 

LIONEL finally made the Geeps and the F series in my color, but priced them out of my league,,,,,,,,,,,,,I did break down and buy the 0-8-0 in L&N and Legacy, but it hasn't left the box yet,,,,,it will later.

 

Thanks for this post, how about more posts and pics?

 

Rod

I bleed L&N, primarily because I've grown up in Louisville.

 

The only Motive Power I have in L&N, is the Lionel F7 ABA's from the 12V1 catalog.  I will admit, I am not a fan of the Baby Blue & Yellow Geep's.  The Deep Blue I dig, and even the latter years when they used Gray before the CSX merger, but the Off Blue & Yellow is just not appealing.

I like them.  I have a set of Williams SD45s in the Family Lines paint and this caboose

 

I wish Seaboard would have stayed with the Family Lines name.  Then the Chessie merger could have been Chessie Family and then list the individual railroads like the Family lines did.   Oh well.

 

 I would love to pick up some more L&N rolling stock.  The thing is I buy cheap on the used market and the L&N rarely turns up at all used not to mention cheap.

In 1992 Lionel cataloged the 11729 L&N set, but the complete boxed set as shown in the 1992 catalog was not made.  Instead it was later offered as separate sale components, however the Standard O caboose was replaced by a traditional Lionel bay window. Photo below is from the 1992 Catalog.

 

 

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Here is a photo I found on the Gellwood Fallen Flag website showing the L&N "Black Cat" scheme of the early-mid 1960s scheme as painted on your F3 shells. This was replaced by the yellow nose gray scheme by 1967. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Originally Posted by Richard Gonzales:

I am working on an L&N Train. Here  is a Lionel 2343 set  with L&N shells.  I picke up the shells in Nashville at the TCA Christmas show a couple of years ago. I am sure the pait job is not even close to being correct, but the F3's look good.

 

 

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Have a good week,

 

Richard

 

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