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Owner: Louisville & Nashville
Model:EMD E8ABuilt As:SLSF 2015 (E8A)
Serial Number:10181Order No:2014
Frame Number:2014-A10Built:2/1950
Notes:ex-SLSF 2015
Other locos with this serial:  SLSF 2015(E8A) LN 786(E8A)
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L&N 786
Title:  L&N 786
Description:  L&N E8A's 786 and 785 back into New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal for the last departure on train No. 8 - the PAN-AMERICAN. The 786 and 785 were built as Frisco 2015 TWENTY GRAND and 2009 JET PILOT in 1950 and were purchased by the L&N in 1965.
Photo Date:  4/30/1971  Upload Date: 4/30/2016 2:31:06 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Paul H. Oliver. Jr. Photo
Categories:  Station
Locomotives:  LN 786(E8A)
Views:  890   Comments: 1
L&N Last Run
Title:  L&N Last Run
Description:  This somewhat-fuzzy Instamatic shot recorded the last departure of a regularly-scheduled L&N train from New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal. It was 5PM as the PAN-AMERICAN pulled out behind E8's 785 and 786, both former Frisco units purchased in 1965, with baggage car 1484, heavyweight coach 2555, lightweight coaches 3254 and 3250, lunch-counter/diner/lounge 2801, and 6-6-4 sleeper SHORT LEAF PINE, all for Cincinnati; plus coach 3255 for Jacksonville. L&N was one of few U.S. railroads that ran sleepers with open sections up until the beginning of Amtrak. The commemorative lettering on the nose and side of the 785 was added by railfan Jim Selzer of Slidell, Louisiana. The last southbound PAN-AMERICAN arrived at 11:25 the next morning behind E7A's 779 and 780, and they deadhead out later that day with all of the remaining L&N cars.
Photo Date:  4/30/1971  Upload Date: 3/5/2014 8:15:21 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  Paul H. Oliver, Jr.
Categories:  Station,Passenger
Locomotives:  LN 785(E8A) LN 786(E8A)
Views:  2525   Comments: 1
L&N 786
Title:  L&N 786
Description:  On the deadline
Photo Date:  8/6/1972  Upload Date: 6/15/2015 5:13:22 PM
Location:  Lafayette, IN
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LN 786(E8A)
Views:  441   Comments: 0


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