Help us preserve, scan and post more rare and endangered films on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCddem5RlB3bQe99wyY49g0g/join Website: www.PeriscopeFilm.com This silent film "The Days of Steam on the L. & N." features footage shot by filmmaker Gene Miller in the mid-1930s through the 1950s. It shows the Louisville and Nashville Railroad's operations in Indiana and southwestern Kentucky. The railroad began operating diesel locomotives in 1939 and stopped operating steam locomotives in 1957. The last steam locomotive to run on the line was a J-4 class 2-8-2 Mikado, number 1882. This film shows some of the progression in steam technology that occurred during the 20th Century, in that it ends with footage of one of the railroad's two streamlined trains. It also shows engines built at the Kentucky Locomotive Works in Louisville. The Works constructed a substantial number of steam engines including 31 classes of Consolidation 2-8-0s. 0:00 Main titles. Locomotive 1040 shown at 2:13 is one of the H-23 class Consolidation engines. At 2:46, #1191 is an H-25 class built by Rogers in 1907. At 3:10 locomotive #1259 of the H-27A class arrives in Louisville. This engine was built by the L.& N. shops. The car shown at 3:35 is apparently a "Jim Crow" type passenger car. This was a segregated railroad car designated for Black passengers during the era of Jim Crow laws in the United States, which enforced racial segregation and required separate but unequal accommodations. At 3:41, #1303 from the Kentucky Locomotive Works built in 1911. At 4:04, 0-6-0 switch locomotive 2079 built by Rogers is shown. At 5:00, L.&N.'s first 0-8-0 switch locomotive #2114 is shown at Evansville. At 6:34, a Pacific type K-4 4-6-2 is shown, number #230, pulling a passenger train. This is followed by engine No. 239, another K-4 fitted with 69-inch drivers and built in 1918. At 7:54, a K-5 locomotive #242 is shown at Evansville, built by the Richmond Locomotive Works. This engine had 73-inch drivers. At 8:41, locomotive #260 is shown crossing the Ohio River bridge at Henderson, Kentucky; this was a K-48 built by the Kentucky Locomotive Works in 1922. At 9:08, K-5 #270 is shown, built by Baldwin in 1923 and pictured at Howell, Indiana. At 9:52, 4-6-2 engine #272 is shown at Evansville, this was built by Brooks in 1924. It hauls a passenger train with multiple Pullman cars. At 10:36, engine #275 is shown. This K-5 was equipped with a bigger tender than available previously, to extend range between water stops. This engine was streamlined in 1940 and assigned the name "South Wind". At 11:09 the engine is seen pulling the Dixie Flagler passenger train on the trestle across the Ohio River at Henderson, Kentucky. At 11:46 it is seen at Sebree, Kentucky. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, commonly called the L&N, was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States. Chartered by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1850, the road grew into one of the great success stories of American business. Operating under one name continuously for 132 years, it survived the Civil War and Great Depression and waves of social and technological change. Under Milton H. Smith, president of the company for 30 years, the L&N grew from a road with less than three hundred miles of track to a 6,000-mile system serving fourteen states. The L&N eventually extended its reach to St. Louis, Memphis, Atlanta, and New Orleans. The railroad was economically strong throughout its lifetime, earning the nickname, "The Old Reliable". In the 1970s the railroad became a subsidiary of the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad and within a decade it was absorbed entirely. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we've worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you'd like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com --- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuP5T-lrPeg Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm)