E6 with L&N’s Humming Bird

E6 with L&N’s Humming Bird

By Angela Cotey | September 22, 2023

| Last updated on August 7, 2025


A single E6 diesel leads Louisville & Nashville’s Cincinnati–New Orleans Humming Bird through Turner, Ky., in 1948. A rebuilt heavyweight sleeper trails the original six lightweight cars of the streamliner.
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