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Kentucky and South Atlantic Railroad: Kentucky Southern Railroad: L&N: 1872 1882 Louisville, St. Louis and Texas Railway: Kentucky and Tennessee Railroad: GM&O: 1870 1872 Mobile and Ohio Railroad: Kentucky and Tennessee Railroad: 1902 1904 Kentucky and Tennessee Railway: Kentucky Union Railway: L&N: 1854 1894 Lexington and Eastern Railway ...
Its first line extended barely south of Louisville, Kentucky, and it took until 1859 to span the 180-odd miles (290 km) to its second namesake city of Nashville.There were about 250 miles (400 km) of track in the system by the outbreak of the Civil War, and its strategic location, spanning the Union/Confederate lines, made it of great interest to both governments.
CSX Transportation owns and operates a vast network of rail lines in the United States east of the Mississippi River.In addition to the major systems which merged to form CSX – the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, Louisville and Nashville Railroad, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and Seaboard Air Line Railroad – it also owns major lines in the Northeastern United ...
"Keeping the Flames of Freedom Alive", Underground Railroad Monument in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Detroit, Michigan is in the background. The Act Against Slavery of 1793 stated that any enslaved person would become free on arrival in Upper Canada. A network of routes led from the United States to Upper and Lower Canada. [1]
In 1886, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N) began to work toward a route into the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield. Work from Corbin, Kentucky commenced on April 29, reaching the town of Pineville, Kentucky in 1888. [6] The following year, the line was completed to Middlesboro, Kentucky.
The CC Subdivision is a railroad line owned by CSX Transportation in the U.S. State of Kentucky.The line runs from Taylor Mill, Kentucky, to Corbin, Kentucky, for a total of 177.1 miles (285.0 km).
Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railroad Louisville, Cincinnati and Lexington Railway Louisville and Nashville Railroad: Route; Termini: Latonia, Covington, Kentucky, United States Clifton, Louisville, Kentucky, United States: Distance travelled: 101.4 mi (163.2 km) [2] Service frequency ~14 trains per day [3] Technical; Track gauge: 1,435 ...
1883 map of the Consolidated Southern Railway (the red line heading north from the orange area) The Consolidated Southern Railway was a plan in the 1880s to extend the EK south as part of a through line to Hickory and Statesville, North Carolina, also using the never-built Norfolk and Cincinnati Railroad and part of the Chester and Lenoir Railroad.