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Owner: Louisville & Nashville
Model:EMD E7ABuilt As:LN 793 (E7A)
Serial Number:7603Order No:E1082
Frame Number:E1082-A4Built:3/1949
Other locos with this serial:  LN 793(E7A)
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L&N No. 9
Title:  L&N No. 9
Description:  On the afternoon of 18 September 1970 Louisville & Nashville train 9 – the southbound PAN-AMERICAN – was crossing Industrial Parkway in eastern New Orleans with E7A 793 and one coach. The reason for this unusually brief consist isn’t known, but the train was running about six hours late! Sometimes the L&N ran a train like this from Flomaton, Alabama to New Orleans if the GULF WIND from Jacksonville missed its connection with No. 9; but on this day, this was the only L&N passenger train into New Orleans. The 793 went back north a few hours later on No. 8, with five cars.
Photo Date:  9/18/1970  Upload Date: 2/11/2020 9:10:56 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  JAMES H. SELZER, JR. photo
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LN 793(E7A)
Views:  1078   Comments: 0
L&N E-Units
Title:  L&N E-Units
Description:  Up until the mid-sixties trios of Louisville & Nashville E-units showed up every day at New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal, on the southbound GULF WIND - PIEDMONT - PAN AMERICAN and the northbound CRESCENT - PAN AMERICAN; but by 13 October 1970 this was VERY unusual. Also, when the L&N regularly ran three E-units together, the last unit almost ALWAYS faced backwards. E7A 793 and E8A 796 were built new for the L&N; while E8A 788 was originally Frisco 2014 named TRUXTON, and had been purchased by the L&N in 1965. An unidentified Illinois Central E-unit was parked by the sand tower, just in off of the PANAMA LIMITED.
Photo Date:  10/13/1970  Upload Date: 12/30/2016 5:43:11 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  James H. Selzer, Jr. photo
Categories:  Yard,Passenger
Locomotives:  LN 793(E7A)
Views:  985   Comments: 1
L&N Train No. 8
Title:  L&N Train No. 8
Description:  Louisville & Nashville train No. 8 – the northbound PAN-AMERICAN – was leaving New Orleans shortly before it was discontinued on 1 May 1971. The train was operating over the Southern Railway’s New Orleans Terminal Co. subsidiary through City Park, on its way from the New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal’s EASTERN CONNECTION at EAST CITY JUNCTION (milepost NOT-3.4) to the L&N connection at L&N JUNCTION (M.P. NOT-6.9). The operator at EAST CITY JUNCTION TOWER had put No. 8 on the “wrong” (i.e., southbound) track because an eastbound Southern Pacific transfer run had just passed him and was occupying the northbound track. The Southern identified these tracks as north- and southbound, even though they ran from west to east! (approximate date of photo)
Photo Date:  4/1/1971  Upload Date: 4/11/2021 7:26:52 PM
Location:  New Orleans, LA
Author:  ROBERT SCORSONE image
Categories:  Passenger,Action
Locomotives:  LN 793(E7A)
Views:  381   Comments: 0
L&N 793
Title:  L&N 793
Description:  L&N 793, 781
Photo Date:  8/6/1972  Upload Date: 1/9/2012 11:58:11 AM
Location:  Lafayette, IN
Author:  Robert Farkas
Categories:  Roster
Locomotives:  LN 793(E7A)
Views:  626   Comments: 1


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