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.
A Diverging Clear Production
49 Minutes