Louisville & Nashville 4-6-2 #152 is an example of state of the art passenger power, circa 1905. The locomotive was delivered to the L&N by the Rodgers works that year, and is the only operable Louisville & Nashville steam locomotive today. While the locomotive was improved over the course of her service life with modernized running gear and a superheater, she is still basically the same locomotive that was originally built to be haul the L&N’s premier passenger trains.
The recordings on this CD were made on October 15, 2005, as L&N 152 celebrated her 100th birthday by pulling passenger trains over the rails of the Kentucky Railroad Museum between New Haven and Boston, Kentucky. We placed microphones in the cab and atop the tender to capture the sounds of this locomotive in action.
The first three recordings were made in the cab before the first run of the day. After the locomotive had been steamed up a little bit east of downtown New Haven, she was pulled into the yard. In the first recording, 152 backs off the mainline to let the museum‘s CF7 pull the passenger train past. After the diesel and train were by, the second recording finds 152 coupling to the train. In the third recording, 152 pulls the train into the depot at New Haven.
Track four is the longest recording on the disc, and is a continuous recording of the run from New Haven to Boston as heard from the cab of the locomotive. Track five is recorded from the top of 152‘s tender, and features sounds of the locomotive pulling the train over the road between New Haven and Boston.
If you love the sounds of steam locomotives, you’ll love this CD of sounds recorded aboard Louisville & Nashville 4-6-2 #152.
Track Listing 1. In the cab - #152 backs into the clear so the CF7 can pass with the passenger cars 2. In the cab - #152 pulls ahead and the backs onto its train 3. In the cab - #152 pulls from the yard to the New Haven station 4. In the cab - #152 pulling a train from New Haven to Boston 5. On the tender top - #152 pulling a train from New Haven to Boston
