WAYCROSS, Ga. — CSX has released its latest heritage diesel, this time honoring predecessor Louisville & Nashville.
The ES44AH locomotive will wear number 1850, which the railroad explains signifies the year the L&N was chartered by the state of Kentucky. The railroad later became part of the Seaboard Coast Line, then part of Chessie System and CSX.
It becomes the sixth locomotive in the CSX heritage series, which feature the current CSX paint scheme on the nose and the predecessor’s scheme on the rear two-thirds. It joins units honoring Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Seaboard System, Chessie System, and Conrail. Like the others, it was painted at the CSX shops in Waycross, Ga.
