The Louisville and Nashville Railroad (AAR reporting mark LN) was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States.
Where that wasn't possible, as with the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad (which was older than the LandN), it simply used its financial muscle—in 1880 it acquired a controlling interest in its chief competitor.
By 1982, the rail industry was consolidating fast, and Seaboard System Railroad, successor to Seaboard Coast Line, absorbed the Louisville and Nashville entirely and withdrew its name from the market at the end of that year.
Chartered in 1850, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad was known as the L&N Railroad and also as Old Reliable.
Particularly notable are the extensive files relating to the Louisville, Henderson, and St. Louis Railroad, chartered in 1882 and becoming a subsidiary of the L&N in 1905.
Also included in the collection are informal individual and group photographs of Louisville and Nashville Railroad personnel dating from 1974, an unpublished tour book entitled "South Louisville Shops" written in 1975, and two photographs of the Covington rail yard from 1963 and 1970.
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Richard E. Prince's long out-of-print encyclopedic study of the Louisville & Nashville, "The Old Reliable." Includes pages and pages of rosters and schematic drawings of the line's various steam locomotives plus hundreds of vintage photographs.
First published in 1959 and revised in 1968, this is the crucial book for the Louisville and Nashville Locomotive's many steam fans.
In 1952 Prince joined the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Union Pacific Railroad and was sent to Green River, Wyoming, where he was part of the Gas Turbine Locomotive Staff for 15 years.
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad Collection at the University of Louisville
This guide covers, in great detail, the CSX ex-Clinchfield from the terminal in Erwin, Tennessee, thru Elkhorn City, Kentucky, and then continues on the ex-Chesapeake and Ohio to Shelby Yard in Shelbiana, Kentucky, a distance of about 149 timetable miles.
It became the last link in a chain of southern antebellum railroads connecting the Ohio River with the Atlantic by way of Louisville, Nashville, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Augusta, and Charleston.
In 1880 LandN acquired 55% of the stock of the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway, which had opened a line from Nashville to Chattanooga in early 1854.
In 1881, the LandN and the Central of Georgia jointly leased the Georgia Railroad.
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, the corporate entity known as the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company was officially merged into the Seaboard System Railroad, ending the LandN's 132-year existence under a single name.
The Seaboard System quickly lost its own corporate identity as it and the Chessie System became CSX Transportation in 1986.
They remain as a tribute to one of the nation's premiere railroads, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company.
Top : Locomotives : Steam : "Louisville & Nashville Steam Locomotives, 1968 Revised Edition" by Richard E. Prince
"With hundreds of vintage photographs, detailed rosters, and schematic drawings, this is a must-have book for the Louisville and Nashville Locomotive's many steam fans."
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L&N Louisville & Nashville R.R. Official Guide containing Time of Trains, Sleeping Car Arrangements and other Information concerning the Louisville & Nashville R.R. and Connecting Lines.
[140391] $75 [1902 LandN Railroad] [Louisville and Nashville Railroad].
[Louisville, Courier-Journal Job Printing, Co., 1902] 46 pp.
All historical cartographic items are from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, http://www.davidrumsey.com/, a large collection of online historical maps.
Includes small inset maps of Florida (continuation of map showing also steamship routes to Havana), northern and central Mexico, and 8 city maps "Principal cities on line of Louisville and Nashville Railroad."
Full Title: Map of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and its connections.