In March 1850 the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Co. was granted a charter by the state to build and operate a line between Louisville and the Tennessee line. The optimistic hope was that the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky., April 14.--The last act in the great Southern railroad operations seems to have been made by young Victor Newcomb, to whom even the Cincinnati press of to-day accords victory.

The stockholders of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad reelected the old Board of Directors to-day, indicating JAEES GUTHRIE's election as President of the road to-morrow. Advertisement ...

Wood-burning locomotives later replaced the horses. By the 1850s, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad had been chartered, making it Kentucky’s first interstate standard carrier railroad ...

The first L&N train to Nashville was in 1859 after the completion of the Louisville and Nashville railroad. In honor of 160 years since that first train, the "L&N Historical Society" held a ...

Before Amtrak, Louisville travelers could choose between Louisville & Nashville Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad to take them to destinations across the country. Despite not having railway ...

The Federal Railroad Administration included Louisville and Nashville in its 40-year Midwest Regional Rail Plan. State transportation officials have identified freight rail infrastructure ...

In 1914, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N) needed a reliable water source for their steam locomotives and livestock pens, so they dammed Otter Creek to create the 85-acre lake seen today.

TH The Federal Railroad Administration is considering ... First.The Detroit to New Orleans service would connect Louisville to Cincinnati; Nashville, Tennessee; Birmingham, Alabama; Montgomery ...

According to a survey made of the line of railroad from Nashville to Louisville, the approximate cost ofthe whole road completed and in running order, with equipments, depots, c, is 85,000,000.