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Past meets future on the L&N

By Angela Cotey | December 15, 2021

| Last updated on August 8, 2025

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Three-decade-old Mikado 1540 stands with spanking new GP7 500 at Louisville & Nashville’s South Louisville Shops in 1951.
Jack Fravert photo

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