Family Lines
Prototype Photos

Alco C628 in french gray leads at Habersham, TN -Jay Thompson photo

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L&N 1496 loading at Glenbrook at the end of the Clover Fork Branch, Aug 1980 -Jimmy G. Miller	The Family Lines influence is in full swing despite the gray and yellow on 3013. Dante, VA 1980 -Ron Flanary	Barely a year old, a pair of L&N SD40-2s led by 8001 sits in the Etowah, TN next to a pair of Oneida & Western (Shamrock Coal) SD40-2s -Jay Thompson
Two GE U30Cs chug along with a string of loaded coal hoppers, passing through tiny Elkatawa, KY on a cold day in December 1979 -Jay Thompson	A hot summer day in August 1979 finds a Family Lines painted SD40-2, an L&N-painted SD40 and a couple of six-axle GEs hauling a unit coal train through Wolfcoal, KY -Jay Thompson	GP9 524 with a big yellow nose and an ex-Monon C420 lead a mine run southbound through Blackey, KY on a muggy July day in 1979 -Jay Thompson
Two Family Lines-painted big ALCo C628s haul a string of loaded coal cars through Combs, KY on the L&N's Eastern Kentucky (EK) Sub on a cold day in March 1979 -Jay Thompson	L&N SD40-2 3608 in Family Lines paint leads South East Coal Company GP20 2001 with a northbound SECX unit train as it pulls into Hazard, KY on a dreary, overcast day in March 1979 -Jay Thompson	Louisville & Nashville C630 1432 blows thick, oily smoke as she and L&N C628 7514 (ex-SCL 2201, ex-ACL 2001) and L&N SD40-2 3554 lead a southbound unit coal train at Woodbine, KY, 8 Nov 78 -Jay Thompson
An L&N SD40-2 in Family Lines paint leads a Norfolk & Western SD40-2 and a Conrail U33C (still in Penn Central paint) south through the tiny hamlet of Rockholds, KY on a hot August day in 1978 -Jay Thompson	A Family Lines painted ALCO C628 smokes it up as it hauls a heavy train through Habersham, TN, Jun 78 -Jay Thompson Thanks to Robert Thompson for scanning his father's photos and adding the text, click here to view more of Jay Thompson's photos on Flickr

Roster Shots

Ten years after it was built, SD40 1250 was wearing Family Lines paint and sitting at the head of a southbound train in the east yard at Etowah, TN, May 81 -Jay Thompson

On a break from hauling coal trains, L&N U30C 1550 sits at the engine shop in Etowah, TN on February 22, 1980 -Jay Thompson

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