Locomotives, at Decoursey
L & N 976, Rosedale
Built by Baldwin in 1903
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| Two views of Engine No. 1950, the first L&N M-1, delivered at DeCoursey on July 30, 1942 | |
The pic was taken in Louisville in 1915, but this locomotive
operated between Latonia and Cincinnati's Union Central.
That's Traveling Engineer L. W. Pulliam posed with the engine.
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L & N #105, a 4-6-2 |
L & N 441, Rosedale, |
Class J-4-A at Latonia |
L&N M-1 #1960
September 20, 1955
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At DeCoursey, August 12, 1948 |
L & N 1999, a 2-8-2 in |
This is Engine 1951, the second M-1, shown on the remodeled
turntable. Because of the M-1's larger
size, the turntable had to be increased from 85 feet to 120 feet. This is June 18, 1943.
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| M-1 Number 1960 at DeCoursey Same exact picture: one's bad quality with a caption, the other doesn't have the caption, but it's a much sharper image. |
#1951 at DeCoursey, c. 1948 | |
| A collection of L & N Steam Locomotives, taken
at locations other than DeCoursey, is here, Diesels here. |
| In 1955, Trains Magazine ran a special L & N issue.
In it, they published a complete roster of L & N Motive power, steam and diesel. See it here. |
The first diesels in Latonia, October 1943
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| DeCoursey, June 30, 1956 | unknown date | ||
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| L & N 774 August 23, 1967 |
Switcher from 1966 |
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| The North End of Decoursey. Penn Central PC 7361, an EMD GP9 on transfer duty, September 11, 1976 |
The South End of Decoursey. EMD SD45 on Q-143 exits Grant's Tunnel just south of Decoursey Yard on December 30, 2003. |
| Both of these great Decoursey scenes are copyrighted photos by Don Faris. Clicking on the thumbnails will take you to railpics.net, where the originals reside. | |
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L & N Alco RS-3 #138, |
L & N 144, 578 & 125 |
L & N 576, an F9B at Decoursey, 10/31/1970 |
L&N 1426 at Decoursey
| An ALCO RS36 1800 horsepower road-switcher built in 1962, #914. Only 40 were manufactured and the L&N had but five. All five wound up working at sprawling Decoursey Yard just south of Covington where they could be seen (and heard) by local residents. January 1973. From a Facebook post by Frank Michaels |
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| L & N 1620, at Decoursey April 6, 1980 |
L & N 169, an RS3, May, 1978 |
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| L & N 116, 1973 | c. 1980 | #4110, unknown location |
