C628s and C630s, EMD SD35s and SD40s, and GE U25C’s, U28C’s and U30C’s were common power on the through trains. Many of the elegant Al- co FA2 cab units in the accompanying images were still on the roster, but the remaining members of the fleet (as well as the FB2 boosters) had been reas- signed to the DeCoursey, Ky.-Cincin- nati area for transfer service in 1968. The Alco C420s that became so ubiqui- tous in the L&N’s eastern Kentucky coalfields in the ’70s were still in main line freight and intermodal service at the time (also, the ex-Monon units weren’t on the roster yet, since the L&N wouldn’t acquire the Hoosier Line until 1971). Caboose numbers were not recorded on the train sheet, but there was a mix of newer steel bay window cabs on the major trains and two types of wooden cupola cabs on the locals and mine runs. The photos accompanying this fea- ture were not taken on this particular day, but were all exposed within the
BELOW: One of the earliest unit coal trains on the L&N was this Merna, Ky.,
to Georgia
Power run. On April 2, 1966, four U25C’s are getting a work out pushing the first cut of 43 cars under the loadout and up a three per cent grade. The engineer is Morgan Calhoun. BOTTOM: Train 66 (later 864) exits Hagans Tunnel on the Kentucky side of Cumberland Mountain in May 1966 behind three GE U25C’s. The “CC&O Connection” was opened to traffic in 1930.
1965-1970 timeframe. Many of
the
trains, motive power, locations, and crewmen listed on the March 21, 1969, train sheet are represented in the pho- tos. For images taken prior to the change in train numbers in 1967, their older numbers are shown (for example, train 65 would later be numbered 865).
Friday, March 21, 1969: A 24-Hour Summary of Operations
11:30 p.m., Thursday, March 20,
1969—Dispatcher F.L. Johnstone com- pletes turnover from extra dispatcher J.B. Chadwell and assumes control of
the CV. L&N dispatchers change shifts at 11:30, 7:30 and 3:30, and Johnstone is handling the 3rd “trick” normally handled by W.A. Horne, Jr., who is off. 12:01a.m., Friday, March 21, 1969— The weather at Corbin is cloudy and 48 degrees. In Loyall it’s 46 degrees and clear, but at Norton, Va., — the highest elevation on the L&N system — it’s a balmy 58 degrees. The weather is recorded at all three locations at the be- ginning of each shift. 12:30 a.m.—No. 865 from March 20 arrives Norton with 156/171/169 (three RS3s), S.B. Sturgill/McCracken, 49-4- 3958 into Dorchester Junction, 22-4-
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