Scottsville, KY: 1886 Restored/L&N Depot

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Gary Miller posted two photos with the comment: "This is the Scottsville, KY train depot, originally built in 1887 for the Chesapeake & Nashville Railroad. Passenger service ended in the mid-1900s, and the station officially closed in the 1970. It served as a construction storage facility for roughly 50 years and has been undergoing a complete restoration of the 2-story building with the help of several foundation grants and donations from the general public. There is a restored L&N diesel on site as well as a caboose in need of repair."

Tyler Turpin: That L and N diesel is a GE 70 ton that was Tropicana’s in New Jersey mid 1970s to early 2000s . Several preserved GP7 and 9 including major rebuilds handled the Tropicana cars from Florida to the plant .

Todd Gipson: Tyler Turpin it is also the last L&N locomotive to service Scottsville. Our next open house is July 18, 10-2. Come see us!

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They are not kidding about a "complete restoration." It looks like they built the two-story part from scratch including a new foundation.

Street View, Jan 2025

Just nine months later, the 2-story part is done.

Street View, Sep 2025

A clear view of the locomotive back when it still had its Tropicana orange paint job.

Street View, Jul 2018

From a video:

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"Built in 1886, the Scottsville Train Depot served as a vital passenger and freight station for nearly 90 years."

This town was at the end of a L&N branch.

1954/55 Petroleum and Scottsville Quads @ 24,000

The branch is about in the middle of this excerpt.

Blake Donnelly posted via Dennis DeBruler

Gulfport, MS: History, Model Trains & Plane Museums and Ocean Port

Gulfport Museum of History: (Satellite)

TrainTastic! Train Museum formerly: Mississippi Coast Model Railroad Museum: (Satellite)

Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum: (Satellite)

Ocean Port: (Satellite)

Gulfport Museum of History

Street View, Jun 2022

This looks like it used to be the IC+L&N Union Station.

1954/58 Gulfport North and South Quads @ 24,000

Radios used to be big so they were packaged as fine furniture. It looks like this one has a big speaker.

Stephanie Martin, Jul 2024

This video highlights the railfan action at the museum. This photo is taken from the Amtrak platform along the CSX/L&N track so the train is going south on the CN/IC track. I presume that it is headed to the ocean port.

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TrainTastic! Train Museum formerly: Mississippi Coast Model Railroad Museum

I found this museum while looking for the museum in the above video. It looks like they have a Lego town in the layout.

Ann Henderson, Jul 2024

This museum has a big building.

Street View, Feb 2016

Judging from the photos and videos on Google Maps, they have a huge normal layout and some smaller layouts. This stuck me as the strangest layout.

Cedar The Dentist, Aug 2022

And they have an opportunity for kids to blow off some steam.

Daniel Hill, Aug 2024

Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum

And just three blocks east of the model train museum is the plane museum.

Street View, May 2022

Curtis Martz, Aug 2022

S M, May 2021

Susan Sanchez-Vargas, Jul 2024

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Ocean Port

The ocean port is still operational and rail served. It looks like it handles at least containers, Dole fruit and grain.

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This is the grain elevator that is at the end of the dock.

Bottomline Beatz, Sep 2024

I had assumed that the elevator exported grain and loaded ships. But the long conveyor on the left makes me think they unload ships to import grain.

Bottomline Beatz, Sep 2024

When I saw all of these military vehicles, I assumed the port can handle RORO ships. And note that in the above photo there are military vehicles loaded on train cars. And then I spotted the Liberty Peace in the background of this photo, which is a RORO that is 199m long and 32m wide.

Bottomline Beatz, Sep 2024

I wonder if the military vehicles were leaving the country or coming back home.

Bottomline Beatz, Sep 2024

Louisville, KY: East Liverpool (MN) Tower: L&N vs. C&O

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Tim Shanahan posted

Jack Fravert photograph:

On a hazy September 3; 1976, trains (left to right) #148, #140 and #173 vie for track space through East Louisville's MN Tower. C&O trains joined (or left the L&N at this point, following the tracks on the right toward the Ohio riverfront (except for the C&O's George Washington, which used Union Station from 1963 until 1971). Jack Fravert

When I could not find the C&O on a detailed map, I found a C&O map to determine how the C&O got to Louisville.

appalachian-railroads and multimodalways

So, the C&O went to Louisville from Lexington. When I looked east of Lexington, I found the C&O. In fact, the C&O joined the L&N in Lexington.

1956 Louisville Quad @ 250,000

Since the C&O left the L&N to go to the 7th Street Station while the L&N curved South to go to the Union Station, it was easy then easy to find the "MN" junction on a detailed map.

1950 New Albany, 1951 Louisville East and 1951 Jeffersonville Quads @ 24,000

This confirms that the C&O used the L&N to access Louisville from Lexington.

Ronald Boles posted
The Chesapeake & Ohio's George Washington train did not run on the Louisville & Nashville (L&N) for the majority of its route, but it did use a portion of L&N track to access Louisville on the Old Road.

David Morse: Between Lex and Lou it ran on the L&N’s Old Road. [That makes me wonder where the L&N New Road was located.] It originally ran Lex-Midway-Frankfort—Chrishtiansburg-Eminence-La Grange-Lou. C&O wanted to cut down their transit time between Lex & Lou and looked into moving to the Southern’s Louisville Southern track. Lex-Versailles-Tyrone-Lawrenceburg-Shelbyville-Louisville. Actually ran test trains on this route. The L&N had a very favorable trackage rights agreement with the C&O. Basically C&O paid half the MOW costs and salaries. L&N built the Christiansburg-Shelbyville track to keep the C&O on the Old Road. L&N did not see this track. Their trains took the long way to Lou. C&O’s contract did not allow them to stop at Christiansburg. This meant people in C-burg going to Lou had to take the L&N trains on the long route. C-burg citizens went to the Kentucky Railroad Commission to get them to order the C&O to stop at C-burg. KRC ruled they could not order the C&O to break their contract with the L&N.

Mike Gillespie: Best looking train into Louisville. And its 94 miles of trackage rights on the L&N from Lexington to Louisville was not insignificant.

Jamie Millard: The first three cars paid for the last four. [The first three cars would be baggage cars carrying express freight and US Mail. The last four cars would be passenger cars.]

Florala, AL: Restaurant/L&N Depot and Steam Engine

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Kelly Veasey posted three photos with the comment: "Eating an early dinner at the old depot in Florala AL, can anyone tell me what the large pulley out by the old tracks was for?"

Bill Ray: Robert Tomb it came from Sam Jackson's veneer mill in Laurel Hill.

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Note the steam engine on the other side of the flat belt drive pully.

Street View, Mar 2024

Jim Perva commented on Kelly's post

Kelly Veasey provided five more photos in the comments.

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[The drive pully makes the flywheel look small.]

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Clarksville, TN: Lost/L&N Freight House & Railyard and "The Cage" Bridge

Freight House: (Satellite)

Railyard: (Satellite)

The Cage: (Satellite)

Reed Reding posted
An aerial view of the L & N freight depot at Clarksville, Tennessee. Part of the Cumberland River Drawbridge and the L & N's small Clarksville yard are visible. The line crossing over the L & N is the Tennessee Central's Western Division. You can also make out the unique spur track that the L & N used to serve customers near downtown.

The Tennessee Central Bridge still stands at the end of the Upland Trail.

Ralph M, Sep 2025

Timothy T, Nov 2023

This is a view of the Cumberland River Drawbridge from The Cage. Note that the swing span is open.

정리중, Jun 2025

Eminence, KY: Municipal Building/L&N Depot

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Depot Ave. is built on the former L&N right-of-way. This view is from Depot Ave.

Street View, Nov 2024

Street View, Nov 2024

Russell Saunders posted, cropped
This was the depot built by the Louisville & Nashville R.R. Co. in Eminence, Kentucky.  Today it serves Eminence as the municipal building.
Randy Early shared

1954/55 Eminence Quad @ 24,000

J.B. Rail Photog posted four photos with the comment: "The Eminence City Hall in Eminence, KY, operates out of the town's historic train depot, preserving a key piece of the community's railroad history."

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